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Double Aspect

Canadian public law and other exciting things


  • September 18, 2013

    Facing Justice ― English Version

    I wrote last year about the Supreme Court’s decision on whether a witness in a criminal proceeding could testify while wearing a niqab, a full-face veil,  R. v. N.S., 2012 SCC 72, [2012] 3 SCR 726. Of course, the questions about balancing trial fairness and freedom of religion which the Court had to confront in that case do not only…

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    Criminal Law/Policy, Law and Religion, The Justice System
    conflict of rights, England, niqab, religious exemptions
  • September 16, 2013

    Not Even Close

    I said I would stop writing about the Québec Charter of Values for a while, but I’ll break that promise already, albeit only to report that a number of law professors have given their views on it in the last couple days. Their verdict is almost unanimous: the proposed Charter’s key part, the prohibition on…

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    Constitutional law, Law and Religion
    Charte de la honte, Charte des valeurs, Charter, laïcité, Québec, secularism
  • September 16, 2013

    Difference in Deference

    After the sad distraction of the repressive “Québec Values Charter” on which I spent the last week, it is time to return to my more customary business of constitutional law and theory. It will no doubt be very bad for the blog’s traffic, but very good for my mood. There is a good occasion for…

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    Constitutional Theory, The Justice System
    courts, judicial activism, judicial restraint, judicial review
  • September 15, 2013

    Chasser les marchands du temple

    J’ai beaucoup écrit cette semaine sur la « Charte des valeurs » avec laquelle le gouvernement péquiste se propose d’enchâsser en loi l’intolérance et la méfiance envers « l’autre », celui ― et surtout celle ― qui ne ressemble pas à ce qu’on est habitué de voir « chez nous », intolérance et méfiance qu’il…

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    Law and Religion
    Charte de la honte, Charte des valeurs, laïcité, politique, Québec, secularism
  • September 14, 2013

    Can’t Work

    The most serious argument I have seen a representative of the Québec government invoke in defence of its proposed “Charter of Values” is Bernard Drainville’s claim, in an interview to the Globe, that “[w]orking for the state is not a right, it is a choice that comes with certain responsibilities.” The argument is that since…

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    Law and Religion
    Charte de la honte, Charte des valeurs, discrimination, laïcité, Québec, religious exemptions, secularism
  • September 13, 2013

    L’intention ne compte pas

    J’ai reçu, évidemment, des critiques pour mon billet soulignant la ressemblance entre le projet de « Charte des valeurs » du gouvernement péquiste et la Loi sur la restauration de la fonction publique nazie, qui chassait les Juifs (et les opposants politiques) de la fonction publique allemande. La plus sérieuse de ces critiques, qui mérite une réponse, est…

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    History, Political philosophy
    Charte de la honte, Charte des valeurs, Nazism, Québec
  • September 12, 2013

    Histoire des deux chartes

    Dans sa démarche de propagande pour nous faire avaler sa « Charte des valeurs », le gouvernement du Québec la compare souvent à la Loi 101, la Charte de la langue française. L’argument est que les deux Chartes sont semblables en ce qu’elles sont nécessaires et, surtout, en ce que, bien qu’extrêmement controversées au départ,…

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    Law and Religion, Political philosophy
    Charte de la honte, Charte des valeurs, laïcité, Loi 101, Québec, secularism
  • September 11, 2013

    Le Point Godwin

    J’ai promis, dans mon dernier billet, où j’analysais la constitutionnalité de la « Charte des valeurs » proposée par le gouvernement du Québec, de dire des méchancetés au sujet de celle-ci. Eh bien, en voici la plus grande. Ce projet ressemble drôlement à une loi Nazie de 1933, la Loi sur la restauration de la fonction…

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    History, Law and Religion
    Charte de la honte, Charte des valeurs, laïcité, Nazism, Québec, secularism
  • September 11, 2013

    Of Course Not

    The Québec government’s proposal for a “Charter of Québec Values” is now official. It’s not much of a proposal, actually ― there is no bill, and there isn’t going to be for months yet ― but we do have a fancy website on which the government explains what the Charter will do. (The English version isn’t…

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    Constitutional law, Law and Religion
    Charte de la honte, Charte des valeurs, Charter, laïcité, Québec, religion, secularism
  • September 5, 2013

    The Harm Is Not in Hate Speech

    I wanted to come back to the sad events of last weekend, when a mosque in Saguenay, in Québec, was smeared with, purportedly, pig blood, and angry letters were sent both to the mosque and to the local Radio-Canada station, demanding that Muslims “assimilate or go home.” As Radio-Canda reported, police are considering charges, both…

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    Legal philosophy
    Charte de la honte, Charte des valeurs, hate speech, politics, politique, Québec, Waldron
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