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Canadian Western Bank v. Alberta, 2007

From: The Court and the Constitution

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The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously upheld provisions of the Alberta Insurance Act, making federally chartered banks subject to the provincial licensing scheme governing promotion of insurance products, on the grounds that credit insurance is not vital to banking and that federal paramountcy did not apply.

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Tom Bateman

Thomas Bateman is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at St. Thomas University in Fredericton.

Janet Hieber

Janet Hiebert is a Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston.

Rainer Knopff

Rainer Knopff is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary.

Peter Russell

Peter H. Russell is Professor of political science (Emeritus) at the University of Toronto.