With a new Prime Minister set to take office on Monday morning once the Liberal Party of Canada has determined who should succeed Justin Trudeau as its leader, it is quite possible that a general election will be called early next week or that Parliament will be recalled forthwith. Accordingly, the lawfulness of the Trudeau […] Read more
The Canadian debate about the relationship between statutory rights of appeal and applications for judicial review continues to rumble on. In Best Buy Canada Ltd. v. Canada (Border Services Agency), 2025 FCA 45, Stratas JA for a unanimous Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal and judicial review application that “adopts the submissions made in the […] Read more
It is early in 2025 but already we have a contender for the most significant public law decision of the year. In Kebaowek First Nation v. Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, 2025 FC 319, Blackhawk J held that, in principle, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (incorporated into domestic law by the United […] Read more
Next up in in this year’s Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium is Professor Aileen Kavanagh (Wednesday, February 26, 11.30 Ottawa time). She will be discussing her wonderful book The Collaborative Constitution: In this book, Aileen Kavanagh offers a fresh account of how we should protect rights in a democracy. Departing from leading theoretical accounts which […] Read more
