By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
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By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
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SNetwork Recent Storiesby ahnationtalk on April 23, 2018526 Views
April 21, 2018
When I use a word, the Supreme Court said on Thursday, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.
At least that’s how Lewis Carroll might have written the Court’s decision in the Comeau “free the beer” case, had he been a member of that august deliberative body. For in waving away the Comeau challenge to provincial barriers to trade, the justices made clear that when they set themselves up as defenders of Canadians’ rights, they mean the rights that the Supreme Court cares about. Other rights? Not so much.
Wait a minute, I hear the defenders of the court say, this wasn’t about Canadians’ rights, because this wasn’t a Charter case. This was about internal barriers to trade, about obscure sections of the 1867 Constitution, about federalism – in other words big, abstract, technical concepts that the average person cannot get his head around and cannot relate to in his own life.
This objection goes right to the heart of the matter. Do economic and commercial rights matter? And even if they do, do Canadians have any such rights?
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