Constitutional law
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Not in My Backyard
Radio-Canada reports that Québec’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) and the (federal) National Capital Commission (NCC) are fighting over the right of candidates in Québec’s election to post signs on Gatineau’s Rue Laurier. The NCC has taken down some signs, citing its policy prohibiting the posting of any signs the streets that form its “Confederation Boulevard,”… Continue reading
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L’important, c’est de participer?
Il y a un mois, j’ai publié un billet sur la possibilité qu’un candidat déçu de ne pas recevoir d’invitation à un débat des chefs se tourne vers les tribunaux pour tenter d’obtenir le droit d’y prendre part. Depuis, le blogue a régulièrement eu des visites de la part de gens qui ont utilisé les… Continue reading
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Another Gun-Registry Case
I have written profusely about Québec’s attempt to obtain from the federal government the Québec-related data accumulated in the now-defunct federal long-gun registry. (My summary of the claim is here, and my comments on it are here.) Québec’s claim is based, in effect, on its alleged co-ownership of the data; it does assert that the… Continue reading
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The Only Thing Worse Than Being Talked About
Is being talked about in a court decision that’s available online for all to see. At least if you’ve sued a former employer, and are looking for a new job. At the Volokh Conspiracy, Eugene Volokh reports on a case in which a man who believes he lost employment opportunities because prospective employers found out… Continue reading
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À quoi sert le lieutenant-gouverneur?
Le Globe and Mail a publié une chronique intéressante de Carolyn Harris, une historienne (et auteure d’un blogue sur l’histoire de la monarchie), réagissanat aux récents propos de Pauline Marois concernant la monarchie canadienne et, plus spécifiquement, l'(in)utilité du lieutenant-gouverneur dans la structure constitutionnelle québécoise. Selon ce que rapporte Mme Harris, Mme Marois aurait affirmé… Continue reading
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Oui… Non… Peut-Être?
La question de l’application de règles de la Loi électorale québécoise concernant les dépenses électorales des citoyens à des activités sur internet, que j’ai déjà abordée ici et ici, refait encore surface. Selon un article de Radio-Canada, le Directeur général des élections a d’abord conclu que liberaux.net, un site farouchement opposé au Parti libéral du Québec,… Continue reading
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Brandishing Banishment
There was an interesting op-ed yesterday in the Globe & Mail, by Lorne Neudorf, a Cambridge PhD candidate, discussing the status and use of banishment as a punishment in Canadian law. Contrary to what we might be incline to suppose, banishment, understood as a legal injunction preventing the person subject to it from living in… Continue reading
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Interpreting Interpretations
I would like to come back to the two cases I mentioned in yesterday’s post―A.-G. Canada v A.-G. Ontario, [1937] A.C. 326, better known as the Labour Conventions Reference, and Missouri v. Holland, because they might tell us something about a problem much broader than the issue (important though it is in its own right) that… Continue reading
Double Aspect 