1 LAW 201: CANADIAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 2017-18 PROFESSOR EDINGER Office: 345 Telephone: 604-822-3925 Email: edinger@allard.ubc.ca REQUIRED MATERIALS E. Edinger, Canadian Constitutional Law Casebook 2017-18 [Available at the UBC Bookstore and on-line at http://www.allard.ubc.ca/elizabethedinger-course-content] Consolidated Constitution Acts, 1867 to 1982, Department of Justice, Canada [Sometimes available at the UBC Bookstore - or you can print out your own copy from the Canadian Consolidated Statutes.] RECOMMENDED TEXT P.W. Hogg, Constitutional Law of Canada [2016 Student Edition or whatever Student edition is available at the Bookstore] GENERAL BASIC REFERENCE R.I. Cheffins & P.A. Johnson, The Revised Constitution: Politics as Law E. Forsey, How Canadians Govern Themselves [http://www.parl.gc.ca] B.W. Furmston & E. Meehan, Canada s Constitutional Law in a Nutshell G. Gall, The Canadian Legal System P.J. Monahan, Constitutional Law P.J. Monahan, The Charter, Federalism and the Supreme Court of Canada
2 INTRODUCTION Colonial Origins to Autonomy The Royal Proclamation, 1763 6 Colonial Laws Validity Act, 1865 10 British North America Act, 1867 (now Constitution Act, 1867) Report of the Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations, 1867-1939 13 Statute of Westminster, 1931 26 Constitution Act, 1982 Constitutional Procedure Constitutional Question Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c.68 885 Canada v. Downtown Eastside Workers, 2012 SCC 45 888 Cambie Surgeries v. AGBC, 2017 BCSC 860 906 General Approach to Interpretation of the Constitution Edwards v. Attorney General Canada, [1930] A.C. 124 (P.C.) 30 Reference re Secession of Quebec, [1998] 2 S.C.R. 217 42 FEDERALISM CONSTITUTION ACT, 1867 Peace Order and Good Government Russell v. The Queen (1887), 7 App. Cas. 829 (PC) 75 Attorney General Ontario v. Attorney General Canada, [1896] A.C. 348 (P.C.) 82 Fort Frances Pulp & Paper v. Manitoba Free Press, [1923] A.C. 695 (P.C.) 87 Attorney General Ontario v. Canada Temperance Federation, [1946] A.C. 193 (P.C.) 94 Johannesson v. Municipality of West St Paul, [1952] 1 S.C.R. 292 98 Reference re Anti-Inflation Act, [1976] 2 S.C.R. 373 105 R. v. Crown Zellerbach, [1988] 1 S.C.R. 401 122 Criminal Law Reference re Validity of Section 5(a) of the Dairy Industry Act, [1949] S.C.R. 1 131 RJR-MacDonald Inc. v. Canada, [1995] 3 S.C.R. 199 131 R. v. Hydro Quebec, [1997] 3 S.C.R. 213 153 Reference re Assisted Human Reproduction Act, 2010 SCC 61 191 Attorney General Canada v. Dupond, [1978] 2 S.C.R. 770 212 Rio Hotel v. Liquor Licensing Board, [1987] 2 S.C.R. 59 228 Chatterjee v. Ontario, 2009 SCC 19 231
3 Quebec v. Canada, 2015 SCC 14 178 Goodwin v. BC, 2015 SCC 46 246 Regulation of the Economy Citizens Insurance v. Parsons (1881), 7 A.C. 96 (P.C.) 254 R. v. Eastern Terminal Elevator Co., [1925] S.C.R. 434 257 Carnation v. Quebec Agricultural Board, [1968] S.C.R. 238 261 Burns Foods v. Attorney General Manitoba, [1975] 1 S.C.R. 494 265 Labatt Breweries Ltd. v. Attorney General Canada, [1980] 1 S.C.R. 914 270 General Motors of Canada v. City National Leasing, [1989] 1 S.C.R. 641 275 Reference re Securities Act, 2011 SCC 66 301 Taxation Bank of Toronto v. Lambe (1887), 12 App. Cas. 575 (P.C.) 313 Canadian Industrial Gas and Oil v. Government of Saskatchewan, [1978] 2 S.C.R. 545 316 Allard Contractors Ltd v. Coquitlam, [1993] 4 S.C.R. 371 334 Kingstreet Investments Ltd. v. New Brunswick, [2007] 1 S.C.R. 3 357 Interjurisdictional Immunity and Paramountcy Winner v. SMT (Eastern) (1951), [1954] A.C. 541 (P.C.) 373 Tessier Ltee. v. Quebec, 2012 SCC 23 383 Bell Canada v. Quebec (1988), [1988] 1 S.C.R. 749 398 Ordon Estate v. Grail [1998] 3 SCR 437 433 Canadian Western Bank v. Alberta, 2007 SCC 22 406 Canada v. PHS Community Services, 2011 SCC 44 446 Marine Services International Ltd. v. Ryan Estate, 2013 SCC 44 451 Alberta v. Moloney, 2015 SCC 51 467 Rogers Communications Inc. v. Chateauguay, 2016 SCC 23 484 Extraterritoriality Churchill Falls (Labrador) Inc. v. A.G. Newfoundland, [1984] 1 S.C.R. 297 494 Unifund Assurance Co. v. Insurance Corp. of B.C., [2003] 2 S.C.R. 63 506 British Columbia v. Imperial Tobacco, 2005 SCC 49 520 THE CHARTER CONSTITUTION ACT, 1982 Applicability RWDSU v. Dolphin Delivery[1986] 2 SCR 573 528
4 McKinney v. University of Guelph, [1990] 3 S.C.R. 229 532 Grant v. Torstar, 2009 SCC 61 551 Eldridge v. British Columbia (Attorney General), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 624 561 Godbout v. Longueuil, [1997] 3 S.C.R.844 568 Justification R. v. Oakes, [1986] 1 S.C.R. 103 585 R. v. Nova Scotia Pharmaceuticals, [1992] 2 S.C.R. 606 573 Newfoundland (Treasury Board) v. NAPE, 2004 SCC 66 590 Dore v. Barreau du Quebec, 2012 SCC 12 597 Remedies Schacter v. Canada, [1992] 2 S.C.R. 679 618 Vriend v. Alberta, [1998] 1 S.C.R. 493 632 R. v. Ferguson, 2008 SCC 6 636 Vancouver v. Ward, 2010 SCC 27 646 R. v. Conway, 2010 SCC 22 661 Freedom of Expression Irwin Toy Ltd. v. Quebec (Attorney General), [1989] 1 S.C.R. 927 674 R. v. Butler, [1992] 1 S.C.R. 452 686 City of Montreal v. 2952-1366 Quebec Inc., 2005 SCC 62 701 R. v. Bryan, 2007 SCC 12 712 Baier v. Alberta, 2007 SCC 31 729 Greater Vancouver Transit Authority v. Canadian Federation of Students, 2009 SCC 31 739 BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association v. AGBC, 2017 SCC 6 762 Freedom of Religion R v. Big M Drug Mart, [1985] 1 SCR 295 776 Syndicat Northwest v. Amselem, 2004 SCC 47 785 Multani v. Commission Scolaire Marguerite -Bourgeoys, 2006 SCC 6 801 Alberta v. Hutterian Brethren of Wilson Lake, 2009 SCC 37 814 MLQ v. City of Saguenay, 2015 SCC 16 842 Loyola High School v. Quebec, 2015 SCC 12 831 ACCESS TO JUSTICE BCGEU v. British Columbia (Attorney General), [1988] 2 S.C.R. 214 856 British Columbia (Attorney General) v. Christie, 2007 SCC 21 864 Trial Lawyers Association v. British Columbia, 2014 SCC 59 870
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