Canadian constitutional law

Canadian constitutional law is the area of Canadian law relating to the interpretation and application of the Constitution of Canada by the Courts. All laws of Canada, both provincial and federal, must conform to the Constitution and any laws inconsistent with the Constitution have no force or effect.

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  • Beyond Borders: Cosmopolitanism and Family Reunification for ...

    The imperfect implementation of family reunification in Canadian law may illustrate a deeper tension in refugee law, between cosmopolitanism and statism. Refugees are accepted in Canada based on cosmopolitan principles. ...
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  • Is the Western Climate Initiative Constitutional? « Legal Planet ...

    Brad Plumer in The New Republic rightfully celebrates the emergence of the Western Climate Initiative, which establishes a cap-and-trade system among several US states and three of the most important Canadian provinces: British Columbia, Ontario, ... Garamendi, the Court invalidated a California law that mandated certain disclosures of insurers who wanted to do business in the state. The issue concerns companies that might have been implicated in the Holocaust. ...
    legalplanet.wordpress.com
  • NunatsiaqOnline 2010-07-28: NEWS: Shipwreck discovery boosts ...

    ... ship in waters claimed by the British with no legal right to do so help Canadian sovereignty? Would someone (other than Jim Prentice or his minions) with some credible credentials in constitutional law please explain that to me? ...
    www.nunatsiaqonline.ca
  • Politics

    And then, there's Peter Hogg, Canada's leading scholar in constitutional law, and the person who gave the GG the advice on which she based her reply to PM Harper's request to prorogue Parliament. “Adviser says 2008 prorogation was right ...
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  • Connie Fogal on The Alex Jones Show"Canadian Martial Law"1/2

    Connie Fogal on The Alex Jones Show"Canadian Martial Law"1/2

    LINKS TO HERE OCTOBER SPEECH - parts 1,2,3. Born August 7, 1940 in Lafleche Sask. Grew up in Saskatchewan.Taught in Saskatoon, Regina, and Toronto public school systems and Universityof BC Centre for Continuing Education.Called to the British Columbia Bar in 1980. Practiced law as a sole practitioner incriminal and family law. In the area of constitutional law, she spearheaded threelawsuits by citizens through the Canadian courts on constitutional issues:challenging the Multilateral Agreement on Investments (MAI), challenging theexpropriation of Nanoose Bay by the Federal government to submit to the USmilitary; challenging the erection of a fence to prevent protest against an FTAAmeeting in Quebec City in1998. 1.ca.youtube.com ____________________________ 2.ca.youtube.com ___________________________ 3.ca.youtube.com www.canadianactionparty.ca
  • Connie Fogal on The Alex Jones Show"Canadian Martial Law"2/2

    Connie Fogal on The Alex Jones Show"Canadian Martial Law"2/2

    LINKS TO HERE OCTOBER SPEECH - parts 1,2,3. Born August 7, 1940 in Lafleche Sask. Grew up in Saskatchewan.Taught in Saskatoon, Regina, and Toronto public school systems and Universityof BC Centre for Continuing Education.Called to the British Columbia Bar in 1980. Practiced law as a sole practitioner incriminal and family law. In the area of constitutional law, she spearheaded threelawsuits by citizens through the Canadian courts on constitutional issues:challenging the Multilateral Agreement on Investments (MAI), challenging theexpropriation of Nanoose Bay by the Federal government to submit to the USmilitary; challenging the erection of a fence to prevent protest against an FTAAmeeting in Quebec City in1998. 1.ca.youtube.com ____________________________ 2.ca.youtube.com ___________________________ 3.ca.youtube.com www.canadianactionparty.ca
  • Constitutional Crisis in Canada

    Constitutional Crisis in Canada

    Prime Minister Stephen Harper has engaged in a scam to prevent the submission of uncensored documents, relating to the torture of Afghan detainees, to Parliament. "Mark my words carefully. This has ceased about being about Afghan detainees and whether they are tortured. What is at stake heer is extremely high constitutional principle about whether we are a democracy in which parliament is supreme, or whether we are inching towards something that is slightly dangerously tyrannical in which a sitting government can say "Parliament, tough luck! Your privileges, your constitutional power don't matter." " University of Ottawa Law Professor Amir Attaran CBC news
  • Democracy Cafe: Time to Tame the PM's Prerogative Powers - Part 1

    Democracy Cafe: Time to Tame the PM's Prerogative Powers - Part 1

    David Schneiderman Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He teaches and writes in the areas of Canadian constitutional law and history, comparative constitutional law, and constitutionalism and economic globalization. He has authored numerous articles and edited several books on Canadian federalism, the Charter of Rights, and Canadian constitutional history. He is founding editor of the quarterly Constitutional Forum Constitutionnel and founding editor-in-chief of the journal Review of Constitutional Studies.
  • Joanne St. Lewis on theRealNews

    Joanne St. Lewis on theRealNews

    Visit therealnews.com Become a member therealnews.com Join the Mailing list: www.therealnews.com isid=192&thisview=item Joanne St. Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section. She currently teaches civil liberties, social justice, comparative South African and Canadian constitutional law and first year legislation. She has also taught courses in critical race theory, history of legal thought and criminal justice administration. She was the co-chair of the Canadian Bar Association Working Group on Racial Equality and author of Virtual Justice: Systemic Racism and the Canadian Legal Profession.
  • Democracy Cafe: Time to Tame the PM's Prerogative Powers - Part 2

    Democracy Cafe: Time to Tame the PM's Prerogative Powers - Part 2

    David Schneiderman Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He teaches and writes in the areas of Canadian constitutional law and history, comparative constitutional law, and constitutionalism and economic globalization. He has authored numerous articles and edited several books on Canadian federalism, the Charter of Rights, and Canadian constitutional history. He is founding editor of the quarterly Constitutional Forum Constitutionnel and founding editor-in-chief of the journal Review of Constitutional Studies.
  • Democracy Cafe: Time to Tame the PM's Prerogative Powers - Part 5

    Democracy Cafe: Time to Tame the PM's Prerogative Powers - Part 5

    David Schneiderman Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He teaches and writes in the areas of Canadian constitutional law and history, comparative constitutional law, and constitutionalism and economic globalization. He has authored numerous articles and edited several books on Canadian federalism, the Charter of Rights, and Canadian constitutional history. He is founding editor of the quarterly Constitutional Forum Constitutionnel and founding editor-in-chief of the journal Review of Constitutional Studies.
  • Democracy Cafe: Time to Tame the PM's Prerogative Powers - Part 3

    Democracy Cafe: Time to Tame the PM's Prerogative Powers - Part 3

    David Schneiderman Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He teaches and writes in the areas of Canadian constitutional law and history, comparative constitutional law, and constitutionalism and economic globalization. He has authored numerous articles and edited several books on Canadian federalism, the Charter of Rights, and Canadian constitutional history. He is founding editor of the quarterly Constitutional Forum Constitutionnel and founding editor-in-chief of the journal Review of Constitutional Studies.
  • Connie Fogal on The Alex Jones Show"Canadian Martial Law"1/2

  • Connie Fogal on The Alex Jones Show"Canadian Martial Law"2/2

  • Constitutional Crisis in Canada

  • Democracy Cafe: Time to Tame the PM's Prerogative Powers - Part 1

  • Joanne St. Lewis on theRealNews

  • Democracy Cafe: Time to Tame the PM's Prerogative Powers - Part 2

  • Democracy Cafe: Time to Tame the PM's Prerogative Powers - Part 5

  • Democracy Cafe: Time to Tame the PM's Prerogative Powers - Part 3

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