A group of Toronto arbitrators is pushing for the government to adopt a single commercial arbitration act to cover both domestic and international disputes—a move that would streamline arbitrations and bring the rules in Canada’s busiest arbitration region more in line with the Model Law on Commercial Arbitration and the New York Convention.

“We have an opportunity to have an act that covers our commercial arbitration from soup to nuts, international and domestic and simplifies the whole situation for everybody,” said William Horton, a Toronto-based arbitrator who heads the Arbitration Act Reform Committee of the Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society.