comparative constitutional law fall 2008 professor fischer constitutional crisis september 3, 2008
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Comparative Constitutional Law Fall 2008
Professor FischerConstitutional CrisisSeptember 3, 2008
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Canadian Artist: Emily Carr (Kispiax Village)
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Canadian Artist: Emily Carr (Autumn Wods)
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Wrap-Up
• Federalism in Canada:• 2 list system• Broad reading of provincial powers,
narrow reading of POGG residuary power in A. 91 by both Privy Council and Supreme Court
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What is
• Distributive federalism?• Identity-based federalism?• Which more accurately describes the
Canadian system? • Is canadian federalism asymmetrical? If
so, how? See p. 16 RR, See Re Quebec Objection to A Resolution to Amend the Constitution [1982] 2 SCR 793
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Crisis Management by the Supreme Court of Canada
• Reference Jurisdiction
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Manitoba Language Reference (1985)
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Patriation Reference (1981)
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Secession Reference (1998)
• Followed Quebec referendum in 1995: vote to secede failed by margin of 50.4%-49.4%
• Could Quebec constitutionally unilaterally secede from Canada?
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Terrorism in Canada• The FLQ • October Crisis of 1970
(kidnapping of James Cross, Pierre Laporte)
• Trudeau response: the War Measures Act
• Invoked 3 times in Canadian history (First World War, Second World War (Japanese Candian internment), October Crisis)
• Replaced by Emergencies Act 1988
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September 11, 2001
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Security Certificates
• Charkaoui v. Minister of Citizenship and Immigration [2007] 1 S.C.R. 350 -
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2008: Amendment of IRPA – Bill C-3
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Charkaoui v. Canada [2008] SCC 38
• Charkaoui round 2: destruction of notes by CSIS
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David Fontana article
• Do you agree with David Fontana’s comparative critique of the U.S. Supreme Court in Dissent? [Handout packet p. 72] Why or why not?