Recorded on Saturday, January 12, 2019 at the Runnymede Society’s 2019 Law & Freedom conference. Featuring Andrew Coyne, Carissima Mathen, Emmet Macfarlane, Dwight Newman and Geoff Sigalet (moderator).<\/p>\n
In September 2018, the Government of Ontario proposed the use of the notwithstanding clause to override a court decision that invalidated legislation which shrank the size of city council in Toronto. More recently, the Premier of Quebec floated the idea of applying the notwithstanding clause to legislation that would forbid certain public servants from wearing religious symbols. In 2017, Saskatchewan invoked the notwithstanding clause in the wake of a court ruling concerning public funding for Catholic schools. This panel will consider the lessons that can be learned from these recent experiences with the notwithstanding clause.<\/p>\n
Andrew Coyne is a columnist with The National Post. A graduate of the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics\u200e, he has worked previously for Maclean\u2019s and The Globe and Mail, and is a weekly panelist on CBC\u2019s The National.<\/p>\n
Carissima Mathen, LSM is vice-dean and professor of law at the University of Ottawa. She is a constitutional and criminal law expert. Her most recent book is Courts without Cases: The Law and Politics of Advisory Opinions (forthcoming, Hart). For a far more entertaining bio, please refer to her website www.carissimamathen.ca.<\/p>\n
Emmett Macfarlane is an associate professor of political science at the University of Waterloo. He is the author of Governing from the Bench: The Supreme Court of Canada and the Judicial Role (UBC Press, 2013), and the editor of Constitutional Amendment in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2016) and Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution (University of Toronto Press, 2018).<\/p>\n
Dwight Newman is a professor of law and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Rights in Constitutional and International Law at the University of Saskatchewan, where he has also previously been associate dean. Professor Newman has also been a recent visiting fellow at Princeton, Cambridge, and Montr\u00e9al. He has published widely on constitutional issues.<\/p>\n
Geoffrey T. Sigalet is a QROF postdoctoral fellow at Queen\u2019s University Law School and a research fellow at Stanford Law School\u2019s Constitutional Law Center for the 2018-19 academic year. He completed his PhD in political theory and public law at Princeton University, where his dissertation developed a republican theory of judicial review and constitutional interpretation.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"template":"","library--year":[105],"law-and-freedom":[157],"library-theme":[135],"dicey-law-review":[],"main-categories":[71],"class_list":["post-31165","library","type-library","status-publish","hentry","library--year-105","law-and-freedom-law-freedom-2019","library-theme-notwithstanding-clause","main-categories-law-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library\/31165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/library"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library\/31165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"library--year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library--year?post=31165"},{"taxonomy":"law-and-freedom","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/law-and-freedom?post=31165"},{"taxonomy":"library-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library-theme?post=31165"},{"taxonomy":"dicey-law-review","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dicey-law-review?post=31165"},{"taxonomy":"main-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/main-categories?post=31165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}