Charter of Rights & Freedoms
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From  Courts, Legislatures and Executives in the Post-Charter EraFrom: Essential Readings in Canadian Government and Politics, 2nd Edition |
Text of 1999 speech by Beverly McLachlin explaining the role of the courts in interpreting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. | Debra Thompson; François Rocher; Peter Russell | 8 | 2015 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Criminal Justice in the McLachlin CourtMany More Kudos Than Brickbats |
This chapter is a review of the Court’s major rulings on substantive law, police powers, trial procedure, and evidence. Many are the Court’s major pronouncements as guardians of the … | Don Stuart | 61 | 2011 | $6.10 Add |
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From  Defining the Principles of Fundamental JusticeFrom: Fundamental Justice |
Defines the principles of fundamental justice, particularly focusing on methods and sources such as the balancing of interests. Some rejected principles are also mentioned. | Hamish Stewart | 50 | 2012 | $5.00 Add |
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From  Democratic Rights |
Chapter 4 deals with judicial decisions regarding the “democratic rights” — for example, whether prisoners can vote, whether the Charter might force a more equitable … | Ian Greene | 44 | 2014 | $4.40 Add |
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From  Doucet-Boudreau v. Nova Scotia, 2003 |
A majority of the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that a trial judge who ordered the provincial government to use its best efforts to build French-language school facilities by given dates and then … | Janet Hieber; Peter Russell; Rainer Knopff; Tom Bateman | 9 | 2017 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Doucet-Boudreau v. Nova Scotia, 2003 |
A majority of the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that a trial judge who ordered the provincial government to use its best efforts to build French-language school facilities by given dates and then … | Janet Hieber; Peter Russell; Rainer Knopff; Tom Bateman | 10 | 2017 | $1.00 Add |
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From  NEW! “Down to the short strokes”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines the closing days of Canada’s 1980 constitutional reform, from September 30 to October 9, as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau navigated the entrenchment of the … | Ron Graham | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Employment Equity in CanadaThe Paradox of Tolerance and Denial |
Audrey Kobayashi | 11 | 2005 | $1.10 Add | |
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From Engaging Section 7From: Fundamental Justice |
Discusses section 7 of the Charter and its interpretation by the Supreme Court of Canada, considering how the section applies to state conduct, grants rights to everyone, and deals with the … | Hamish Stewart | 55 | 2012 | $5.50 Add |
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From Equality |
Chapter 6 deals with the Charter’s “equality rights,” perhaps the most challenging section of the document. Beginning in 1989, the Supreme Court set out a test for the … | Ian Greene | 64 | 2014 | $6.40 Add |
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From  For a multicultural, multi-faith, multiracial Canada: A manifestoFrom: Home and Native Land |
The author argues that leftist critics are right in their anti-state condemnation of multiculturalism, but wrong to not see how popular groups – everyday Canadians – make … | George Elliott Clarke | 7 | 2011 | $0.70 Add |
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From Ford v. Quebec (Attorney General), 1988 |
The Supreme Court of Canada struck down a Quebec law requiring public signs and posters and commercial advertising to be in French only, and allowing only the French version of a firm name to be used. | Janet Hieber; Peter Russell; Rainer Knopff; Tom Bateman | 19 | 2017 | $1.90 Add |
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From R. v. Butler, 1992 |
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that while the obscenity provisions of the Criminal Code infringed the right to freedom of expression, they were justified as a reasonable limit under the … | Janet Hieber; Peter Russell; Rainer Knopff; Tom Bateman | 15 | 2017 | $1.50 Add |
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From  NEW! ForewordFrom: Bench Strength |
In this foreword, Harnish briefly explains how nine Supreme Court of Canada judges shaped income tax law from 1938 to 2019. | Kerry Harnish | 3 | 2025 | $0.30 Add |
Fundamental JusticeSection 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms |
Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms provides that “[e]veryone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except … | Hamish Stewart | 361 | 2012 | View |
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From Gosselin v. Quebec (Attorney General), 2002 |
A majority of the Supreme Court of Canada held that a provincial social assistance scheme whose base payments to those under the age of 30 were lower than payments for recipients over 30 was not … | Janet Hieber; Peter Russell; Rainer Knopff; Tom Bateman | 15 | 2017 | $1.50 Add |
