Law professor and longtime Volokh Conspiracy contributor Ilya Somin joins Runnymede Radio to make the case for open borders as favourable to both human freedom and economic prosperity. We touch on Trump's executive orders, the implications of the Trump administration's restrictionism for Canada's Safe Third Party Agreement, political ignorance and immigration, the...
Leonid Sirota: Are We All Originalists Now?
Leonid Sirota, Lecturer at AUT Law School in Auckland, New Zealand, and author of Double Aspect Blog, discusses originalism, the legal interpretive theory which posits that a law's original meaning should govern its subsequent interpretation and application. We discuss whether originalism has been rejected by Canadian courts, particularly the Supreme Court of...
Daniel Goldwater: Quebec Exceptionalism
Joanna and Montreal lawyer, writer, and podcaster Daniel Goldwater discuss Canadian exceptionalism and whether Trumpist nativism could land on Canadian shores, the 2017 Quebec City mosque shooting and why accused Alexandre Bisonette was charged with murder and not terrorism and half of the Bouchard-Taylor Commission's renunciation of that report's recommendations. As...
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