Regular readers will know that there are ongoing debates in Canada about the constitutional foundations of judicial review and, in particular, whether the Supreme Court’s decision in Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v. Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65, [2019] 4 SCR 653 means there is a core, irreducible minimum of judicial oversight that includes review […] Read more

In two cases this year, the Supreme Court of Canada revisited the scope of application of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In York Region District School Board v. Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario, 2024 SCC 22, the Court held that the Charter applies to Ontario school boards. And in Dickson v. Vuntut Gwitchin First […] Read more

A few months ago I posted on a couple of recent appellate decisions on discriminatory bylaws (see here). My excellent doctoral student Paul-David Chouinard noted that the Quebec Court of Appeal has also weighed in on this issue twice recently, in Lauzon-Foresterie (Fiducie) c. Municipalité de L’Ange-Gardien, 2024 QCCA 506 and Procureur général du Québec […] Read more

For a forthcoming contribution to an edited collection on interdisciplinary work in law and political science, I was asked to prepare a comment on a (very good) chapter by Dennis Baker and David Said. Here is Part II, on areas for potential collaboration between administrative lawyers and political scientists. See Part I here. A recent […] Read more