POLS 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Quebec Nationalism, Sunday Shopping, Liberal Democracy

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3140
• Professor: Dave Snow

Document Summary

Lecture 3 the legitimacy and activism debates. Going beyond the traditional legal role of judges. Law society v. skapinker (1984): first scc charter decision: estey: court e(cid:374)gaged i(cid:374) a (cid:862)(cid:374)e(cid:449) task(cid:863) The interpretation and application of ccrf: charter = (cid:862)a (cid:374)e(cid:449) di(cid:373)e(cid:374)sio(cid:374), a (cid:374)e(cid:449) yardsti(cid:272)k of re(cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)iliatio(cid:374) (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) the i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual a(cid:374)d the community and their respe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e rights(cid:863) Giving a warning that this is a game-changer. Characterized the early days of charter jurisprudence: using empirical data to make normative arguments, but in the early days there is no empirical data, it(cid:859)s just spe(cid:272)ulatio(cid:374) Concerns democratic legitimacy of judicial review of constitution: question of democratic legitimacy, charterphobes: judicial review of the charter is bad/will be bad (lacking empirical data, charterphiles: judicial review of the charter is good/will be good. Peter russell: foremost scholar of post-charter canadian law and politics: neither a charterphile nor charterphobe. Why? (cid:858)popular a(cid:374)d u(cid:374)ifyi(cid:374)g (cid:272)ou(cid:374)ter to de(cid:272)e(cid:374)tralizi(cid:374)g pro(cid:448)i(cid:374)(cid:272)ial de(cid:373)a(cid:374)ds(cid:859: ensured nationalizing institution in the constitution.