In the Constitution Act, 1982, the federal government and the provinces made a bargain regarding Senate reform: while Parliament should be allowed to make minor changes to the Senate unilaterally, certain specified changes, including changes to the method of selecting Senators, would require provincial consent. This bargain reflects the fact that Senate reform would affect both federal and provincial interests, given the Senate’s dual roles as a house of the federal Parliament and, at least ideally, as a means by which provincial and regional interests can be represented in Ottawa. The Harper government’s efforts to unilaterally provide for the election of “Senate nominees,” most recently via Bill C-7, would subvert this bargain. This comme...
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In the Constitution Act, 1982, the federal government and the provinces made a bargain regarding Sen...
In the Senate Reform Reference of 2014, the Supreme Court of Canada declared the Harper government’s...
Constitutional conventions are of central importance to the operation of the Canadian constitution; ...
The Senate Reference did not provide an ideal situation for clarifying the nature and limits of the ...
The Senate Reference is ultimately a decision about how democratic decision-making ought to be condu...
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It has long been assumed that Parliament has unlimited power to enact legislation cancelling valid c...
Having promised that the 2015 national election would be the last conducted under the first-past-the...
This paper examines the Canadian Senate’s role within the context of Canada’s federal parliamentary ...
Commentators have suggested that the unsuccessful national referendum to ratify the 1992 Charlotteto...
This paper explains why Canada’s Senate should be elected instead of appointed. Many Canadians today...
This article assesses the constitutionalfoundation by which Parliament lends its lawmaking powers to...
In this article, I shall address the Supreme Court of Canada’s recent jurisprudence on cooperative f...
References are the most political of cases, almost always involving high profile public policy issue...
In the Constitution Act, 1982, the federal government and the provinces made a bargain regarding Sen...
In the Senate Reform Reference of 2014, the Supreme Court of Canada declared the Harper government’s...
Constitutional conventions are of central importance to the operation of the Canadian constitution; ...
The Senate Reference did not provide an ideal situation for clarifying the nature and limits of the ...
The Senate Reference is ultimately a decision about how democratic decision-making ought to be condu...
The new federal government committed that 2015 would be the last election under the first past the p...
Senate reform is an issue that has been a topic of discussion and debate in Canada’s political spher...
It has long been assumed that Parliament has unlimited power to enact legislation cancelling valid c...
Having promised that the 2015 national election would be the last conducted under the first-past-the...
This paper examines the Canadian Senate’s role within the context of Canada’s federal parliamentary ...
Commentators have suggested that the unsuccessful national referendum to ratify the 1992 Charlotteto...
This paper explains why Canada’s Senate should be elected instead of appointed. Many Canadians today...
This article assesses the constitutionalfoundation by which Parliament lends its lawmaking powers to...
In this article, I shall address the Supreme Court of Canada’s recent jurisprudence on cooperative f...
References are the most political of cases, almost always involving high profile public policy issue...