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What Is A Church By Law Established?, M. H. Ogilvie
What Is A Church By Law Established?, M. H. Ogilvie
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
This paper examines one narrow question which is raised tangentially by virtue of the Constitution Act 1867, section 93 and the Constitution Act 1982, section 29 as interpreted by the Supreme Court of Canada in the Reference Re An Act to Amend the Education Act: what is an established church? It argues that when a single church alone enjoys constitutionally entrenched state support for its schools to the exclusion of all other religious groups, the real legal question is not about the legal protection of that church as a religious minority, especially when the recipient of state support is the …