Canadian Constitutional Law #28: Freedom of Religion
Can you take your kirpan to school? Not even if it’s in a box under your clothes? These are the questions of section 2(a), freedom of religion. We’ll talk about the evolution of the concept of freedom...
View ArticleCanadian Constitutional Law #29: Freedom of Expression
What constitutes expression? Does it have to be speech, or can it include actions such as picketing? What restrictions on expression are justified? In our second podcast on fundamental freedoms, we...
View ArticleCanadian Constitutional Law #30: Hate Speech
Is hate speech a form of expression? Can it earn the same Charter protection as dissident political speech? In this podcast, we will discuss hate speech, focusing mainly on R v Keegstra. We will...
View ArticleCanadian Constitutional Law #31: Life, Liberty, and Security of the Person
Moving on to section 7 of the Charter, the first and broadest of the legal rights (ss7-14), we consider life, liberty, and security of the person. This is often used in a criminal law setting, but the...
View ArticleCanadian Constitutional Law #32: Section 7 continued, Assisted Suicide
Continuing on with our look at section 7 rights, we will now consider the case of Rodriguez v BC (AG). A woman with Lou Gehrig’s disease seeks a declaration that she may legally seek doctor-assisted...
View ArticleCanadian Constitutional Law #33: Equality Rights
In this podcast we will be discussing section 15 of the charter, equality rights. It is important to understand the difference between formal equality (American model) and substantive equality...
View ArticleCanadian Constitutional Law #34: Economic and Social Rights
Why does the Charter focus on legal and politcal rights, to the exclusion of economic and social rights? What does this absence mean for Canadian citizens? Could economic and social rights be read into...
View ArticleCanadian Consitutional Law #35: Language Rights
Language rights are very important in Canada as a result of the historical French-English tension. However, sections 91 and 92 do not assign administration of language-related issues to a specific...
View ArticleCanadian Constituional Law #36 – Aboriginal Rights
In the second-last podcast for the course, we move outside the Charter and consider the constitutional entrenchment of aboriginal rights in sec 35 of the Constitution Act 1982. Even though these rights...
View ArticleCanadian Constitutional Law #37 – Remedies and Reform
In this podcast we will discuss remedies within the constitution, and the process of constitutional reform within Canada. This is the final podcast in Canadian Constitutional Law. Schachter v Canada...
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