POLS 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Section 33 Of The Canadian Charter Of Rights And Freedoms, Territorial Authorities Of New Zealand, Legislature

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

Document Summary

Statutory bill of rights: (cid:1005)96(cid:1004) (cid:862)diefe(cid:374)(cid:271)ake(cid:396) bill of ights(cid:863, act of parliament - no constitutional status, applies only to the federal government, courts did not make much use of bill of rights. The queen v. drybones (1970: drybones fined for being intoxicated off a reserve in contravention of section 94(b) of the indian act. Because penalties potentially more severe than those for non-indians: will the bor strike down laws. Lavell and b dard: two status indian women who married non-status men. Lost status if a status women marry a non status man she loses her status, however if a status man marries a non status women he keeps his status. Always making distinctions between men and women, as they do old and young etc: equality reduced to procedural right. Bliss third case in this trilogies look back on drybones and lavell. Courts reluctant to apply it law, top of law hierarchy)