When I returned to Canada in 1981, after having lived in the United States for 15 years, then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was in the process of what was called “repatriating” the Canadian ...
The constitutional debate continues to stir in the National Assembly. While Quebec Liberal leader Pablo Rodriguez says he is ...
Johanne Poirier, the Peter Mackell Chair in Federalism at McGill’s Faculty of Law, says that while a single provincial ...
The New Brunswick government is taking a pass on one of the biggest legal cases on Charter rights in Canada in years. The province quietly withdrew in August from a Supreme Court of Canada case that ...
The federal government asks the Supreme Court to constrain the notwithstanding clause rather than go through the bother of ...
Canada's Justice Minister has rejected calls from five premiers that he rescind a request for the Supreme Court of Canada to ...
How else can Canada, as she urged, “stop dividing Canadians along the lines of colonizer and colonize except by getting rid ...
How do you retool “What the Constitution Means to Me” for those unfamiliar with the U.S. Constitution? Consult Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. By Aisling Murphy Reporting from Toronto. “What ...