The Centre for Constitutional Studies’ Constitutional Forum has published a special issue on cooperative federalism and the gun registry case heard by the Supreme Court of Canada last week. My contribution (in French) is on the relevance of unwritten constitutional principles to the resolution of the case. There are also papers from my colleague Jean-Francois […] Read more

I have a short paper on SSRN on the gun registry case that will be heard by the Supreme Court of Canada in the Fall. Here is the abstract: Section 29 of the Ending the Long-Gun Registry Act orders federal and provincial officials to destroy gun-registration records collected collaboratively over a period of two decades. […] Read more

My holidays have been delayed, much to my frustration! But on the plus side, I was at my desk for the Quebec Court of Appeal’s decision in the gun registry appeal: Canada (Procureur général) c. Québec (Procureur général), 2013 QCCA 1138. I criticized the decision in an oped for the Montreal Gazette yesterday. Here is […] Read more