Double Aspect

Dans un article publié hier par La Presse, Tommy Chouinard rapporte les déclarations du chef du Parti québécois et, vraisemblablement, prochain Premier ministre du Québec, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, qui voudrait « abolir la monarchie au Québec ».

In years past, I had an occasional series of posts going to address the various meanings and implications of “Lord Acton’s Dictum” — power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Last week, the Supreme Court released its judgment in Democracy Watch v Canada (Attorney General), 2026 SCC 28, holding that privative clauses that purport to oust judicial review on questions of fact and law are an unconstitutional violation of the judic…

Some personal news, and of a happier varierty than in my last post (though it won’t be news to those who have seen my posts on Twitter and Bluesky): a couple of weeks ago I signed a contract for what will be my first monograph, to be published by Hart.

For the last few years, I had been a Senior Fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute.

This is, I hope, the lost post in the sort-of-series occasioned by the Supreme Court of Canada’s recent unprincipled and inconsistent decisions on constitutional interpretation.

I have previously mentioned Emmett Macfarlane’s Substack post written in response to my and Michael Plaxton‘s critiques of the Supreme Court of Canada for the inconsistency of its judgments on constitutional interpretation, as well as, in my case, other i…

My last several posts have been concerned with the Supreme Court of Canada’s failure not only to follow but even to acknowledge its own recent precedents on constitutional interpretation, first in Taylor v Newfoundland and Labrador, 2026 SCC 5 and then in…

Last week, the Supreme Court released its judgment in Alford v Canada (Attorney General), 2026 SCC 14,1 holding 8-1 that legislative provisions that allow members of Parliament to be prosecuted for divulging certain national security information, including

I return briefly to the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Taylor v Newfoundland and Labrador, 2026 SCC 5, which I summarized here and whose discussion of constitutional interpretation I criticized here.

In my last post, I summarized what the Supreme Court of Canada had to say about constitutional interpretation in Taylor v Newfoundland and Labrador, 2026 SCC 5.