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NAFTA AND THE CONSTITUTION: DOES LABOUR CONVENTIONS REALLY MATTER ANY MORE?
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TOWARDS THE REFERENDUM: CAMPAIGN CONTRADICTIONS
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SMOKING GUNS: THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONFRONTS THE TOBACCO AND GUN LOBBIES
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REFLECTIONS ON THE 1995 QUÉBEC REFERENDUM: PROBLEMS AND POSSIBILITIES
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LIBERALISM, NATIONALISM, PLURALISM: POLITICAL REPRESENTATION AND NATION-BUILDING IN CANADA BEFORE AND AFTER THE QUEBEC REFERENDUM
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1996 PLURALT CONFERENCE - SHOULD WE KEEP TALKING?
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JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE AND JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION: THE CASE OF PROVINCIAL COURT JUDGES
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Confidence: How Much is Enough?
No full textDid Prime Minister Stephen Harper, faced with almost certain defeat in the Commons in December 2008 on a matter of confidence, act unconstitutionally by seeking to prorogue a newly elected parliament that had been sitting for only two weeks? And did Governor General Michaëlle Jean violate the principles of responsible government by granting prorogation? These questions have been the subject of intense debate in the Canadian media and may rank with the King-Byng crisis of 1926 in future academic and legal discussion of the constitution. In my opinion, while the prime minister tested the limits of “responsible government,” the Governor General respected precedent and acted appropriately and wisely in her decision
The Constitution Act, 1982: the Foreseen and Unforeseen
No full textI started preparations for my first constitu- tional conference in an office overlooking Was- cana Lake nearly forty-seven years ago. I was a young lawyer in the Department of the Attor- ney General of Saskatchewan. Prime Minister Diefenbaker had announced that there would be a Conference of Attorneys-General in early October 1960, chaired by Justice Minister Ful- ton, to seek agreement on “Repatriation of the Constitution.” As I expressed interest in the conference to the Attorney General, and had recently taught constitutional law for a year at the University of Saskatchewan, I was made the secretary of the Saskatchewan delegation. This involved most of the work of research and writ- ing position papers and speeches. But it also in- volved making hotel and travel reservations for which I claimed no particular skill! Of course, after four such meetings in 1960 and 1961 we reached no agreement on repatriation, but it gave me on the job training in constitutional reform