Call for Posters Taking place within walking distance of where the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was proclaimed 35 years ago, the University of Ottawa’s Public Law Group will host the conference,  The Charter and Emerging Issues in Constitutional Rights and Freedoms: From 1982 to 2032 on March 8-10, 2017. Our conference will bring together […] Read more

Challenging the idea of Canada’s Constitutional Identity: Questioning How 18th Century Taxation Legislation became the Canadian Identity By Christopher Lamm When discussing the constitutional creation of Canada, there’s one picture that usually jumps to the mind of historians: the 1864 Charlottetown Conference portrait of our Fathers of Confederation. If you don’t know what I’m referring […] Read more

A Personal and Constitutional Assessment of Section 34(1)(f) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act By Hassan Rasmi Ottawa is celebrating Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation. Objectively, we will be celebrating the success of one of the world’s greatest countries. In fact, several ranking systems hail us as being the second best country in the […] Read more

R v Spencer and the Right to Remain Anonymous By Cayda Rubin R v Spencer (https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/14233/index.do) is a 2014 constitutional law case from the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC). It is an important constitutional “moment” in Canadian history because it was the first time the SCC recognized that there may be a privacy interest in […] Read more

Minority Rights Before the Charter of Rights and Freedoms By Emily Bradley Today, equality is constitutionally protected by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Before the Charter’s enactment however, the legal treatment of minority groups was heavily influenced by the constitutional distribution of powers between the provincial and federal governments. Between 1872 and 1922, the […] Read more

The Expansion of Minority Language Education Rights in Ontario By Heather Cameron Respect for minorities is one of the unwritten constitutional principles underlying the Canadian constitution and of paramount importance in Canadian history. One of the key considerations in Canada’s unique multicultural history has been the guarantee of language rights to minority language groups in […] Read more

To celebrate the Canadian Constitution and to foster constructive discussion, we invite you to submit a short blog post on any topic relating to the Canadian Constitution. In the same way as the Constitution GO contest, the criteria concerning the content of the blog aren’t strict, and we would like to see different points of […] Read more