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Deeper Into The Knight: Exploring Deans Knight And Its Effects On The Canadian Gaar, Jinyan Li, Marshall Rothstein, Steve Suarez, Jeffrey Trossman
Deeper Into The Knight: Exploring Deans Knight And Its Effects On The Canadian Gaar, Jinyan Li, Marshall Rothstein, Steve Suarez, Jeffrey Trossman
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This article discusses the most recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Deans Knight Income Corporation v. Canada (2023) and explores its implications for the Canadian GAAR.
Public Order Policing: A Proposal For A Charter-Compliant Legislative Response, Jamie Cameron, Robert Diab
Public Order Policing: A Proposal For A Charter-Compliant Legislative Response, Jamie Cameron, Robert Diab
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This article offers a brief response to the Final Report of the Public Order Emergency Commission by two authors who provided expert reports to the Commission. We focus on Commissioner Rouleau’s recommendation that the provinces and the federal government create a “major event management unit” to ensure “integrated command and control” of large events, and that governments clarify the scope of police power to create exclusion zones and to impose other limits on protest and assembly. We argue that nothing short of legislation on point would suffice to address problems of coordination among police agencies and the lack of clarity …
Walking The Line: The Politics Of Federalism And Environmental Change, Allan C. Hutchinson
Walking The Line: The Politics Of Federalism And Environmental Change, Allan C. Hutchinson
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This short paper looks at the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act decision through a wider and more critical jurisprudential lens. In so doing, I demonstrate that the courts are no less political than legislatures in making decisions about who has the constitutional capacity to decide on how the challenges of climate change should be met. This is not so much a criticism of the Supreme Court of Canada, but an inevitable feature of constitutional law. After introducing the traditional and received explanation of the differences between political decision-making and judicial decision-making, I delve deeper into the Court's opinions and show …
Insulating The Church: Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Of Canada St. Mary Cathedral V. Aga And The Suppression Of Public Law In The Construction Of Religious Communities, Rabiat Akande, Faisal Bhabha
Insulating The Church: Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Of Canada St. Mary Cathedral V. Aga And The Suppression Of Public Law In The Construction Of Religious Communities, Rabiat Akande, Faisal Bhabha
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In Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church of Canada St. Mary Cathedral v. Aga, the Supreme Court of Canada undertook to grapple with the question of whether, when, and to what extent courts should get involved in the internal decisions of religious groups where there are allegations of procedural unfairness. This paper approaches Aga with an interest in the issue of state regulation of religion through law. The paper (1) reviews and assesses the Court's judgment; (2) summarizes and analyzes the 12 intervener submissions, many of which were made by religious groups likely to be affected by the Court's eventual judgment; and …