Entrench the Charter of the French Language; Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms; abortion rights; Quebec’s dying with dignity law; the notwithstanding clause. Allow government to reject the ...
François Legault’s government has introduced sweeping changes to provincial language laws that would amend the Canadian Constitution to recognize Quebec as a nation and French as its only official and ...
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that non-citizens and non-residents can claim an aboriginal right under the constitution. The case was about the definition of “Aboriginal peoples of Canada” ...
The Quebec government has tabled a bill to tighten the province's language laws, seeking to change the Canadian Constitution to add clauses defining Quebec as a nation with its official and common ...
CBA membership voted to approve a resolution at the organization’s Annual General Meeting Thursday calling on the government to adopt French versions of parts of Canada’s Constitution that have never ...
Quebec can unilaterally modify part of the Canadian Constitution, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday. The province’s proposed language law reform, introduced last week, seeks to change part of ...
Let’s be honest – no teenaged reader is going to rush to the school library and breathlessly ask for a copy of Shaping a Nation. However, students faced with an imminent history research assignment on ...
Nearly three decades after the failure of the Charlottetown accord, Quebec’s status as a distinct society and hand-wringing over constitutional reform are back on the table. Quebec rolled out proposed ...
Nearly 35 years after the patriation of the Constitution of Canada, Quebec remains on the outside looking in, still today the only province that has yet to sign our national pact. But Prime Minister ...
Our legal Constitution exists alongside a political constitution, with its own rules and expectations. Just because you can legally do something doesn’t mean that you can or should, politically.
The death of former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney will lead to a wide examination of his legacy. A lasting policy of the Mulroney regime is free trade with the United States. The Supreme ...