I am currently knee-deep in exam scripts, having taught Administrative Law twice in the Winter Term (once in English, once in French). I thought readers might be interested in taking a look at the final exam I set (70%, with a mid-term accounting for the other 30%). A is an inmate in a federal penitentiary. […] Read more

An invaluable free resource on Canadian administrative law has just been updated (as it is every six months or so), Stratas JA’s “The Canadian Law of Judicial Review: Some Doctrine and Cases“: It is hard to find a useful, up-to-date summary of the Canadian law of judicial review. This summary attempts in a scholarly way […] Read more

In my previous post on References re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, 2021 SCC 11, I discussed Côté J’s partial dissent on the constitutionality of Henry VIII clauses. There I noted that the argument about the constitutionality of Henry VIII clauses turns in part on the existence of robust judicial oversight. The topic of this […] Read more

Last month, the Supreme Court of Canada issued its decision in the References re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, 2021 SCC 11. I am going to post three pieces on the decision: this one, on constitutional limits on delegation in Canada; a second on review of regulations made under the Act, especially Part 2 of […] Read more