POLS 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bertha Wilson, Indian Register, Judicial Activism

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

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Peter russell: foremost scholar of post-charter canadian law and politics: neither a charterphile nor charterphobe. Two parts: national unity, rights protection. Core (universal) values of liberal democracy political freedom, religious toleration, due process, social equality protected pre-charter. No serious debate about minimum protection for: criticizing government, religious freedom, fair trial, even social equality. Reliance on litigation for settling contentious issues could hurt democracy: charter has not weakened democracy 2016 russell. F. l. (ted) morton al(cid:271)erta(cid:859)s fi(cid:374)a(cid:374)(cid:272)ial (cid:373)i(cid:374)ister wrote books known social conservative ran for leadership (prem) prof calgary (conservative wing. Knopff (co-wrote with ted morton); the charter revolution & the court party, and. Charter politics (1992): both did phd with peter russell, convinced the charter was negative for the country, started a large debate on if the role of the charter is good or bad for democracy. The (cid:858)court part(cid:455)(cid:859) thesis (cid:894)2000) (cid:858)charter e(cid:448)olutio(cid:374)(cid:859) aki(cid:374) to the quiet e(cid:448)olutio(cid:374) i(cid:374) que(cid:271)e(cid:272)