PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Parliamentary Sovereignty
15 Apr 2016
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Largely our relaionship with quebec has been with dispute: quebec"s government has been obnoxious, has always been the minority within canada. In canada, the federal and provincial governments can ask he courts for an advisory opinion on some major legal issue (most oten to do with the consituionality of a piece of legislaion) The supreme court allows the federal government to submit a quesion to the supreme court of. Unilateral: to efectuate secession without prior negoiaions with the other provinces and federal government. Under the consituion, secession requires that an amendment be negoiated. The court did reason that if a majority of quebecers proclaimed their desire to secede from. Canada (e. g. , through a referendum), the provinces and federal government would incur an obligaion to negoiate that possibility (through amendment) with the poliical representaives of. In other words it is not disposiive stated anywhere in the consituion that a referendum.
