Following from my previous post and based on Prime Minister’s Trudeau remarks this morning, I would think the prospects for any successful challenge are low. The Prime Minister announced this morning that he would be resigning both as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and from office as soon as a successor is selected […] Read more

There is an end-of-days feeling around Ottawa at the moment. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, it seems, is not long for this (political world). He leads a minority administration and, though he has governed in that way since the last election, the opposition parties now say they will vote no confidence at the first available opportunity. […] Read more

Any foray by the Supreme Court into an area of controversy will invariably leave some questions unanswered. That is the case with Auer as well. Building on my previous note on the decision (see here), three jump out at me. First, the requirements of the presumption of validity are unclear. There is a plausible case […] Read more

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the Supreme Court of Canada’s landmark decision in Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v. Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65, [2019] 4 SCR 653. 2019 is really a world away. On the afternoon of the release of the decision, I held a dial-in session where I delivered my thoughts into […] Read more