Tag: constitution act

Saskatchewan Introduces Legislation Meant to Assert Provincial Jurisdiction Over Natural Resources

Saskatchewan is asserting provincial jurisdiction over its natural resources with the introduction of the “Saskatchewan First Act,” which the province says will fend off “intrusive federal policies.” “This historic legislation will help protect our economic growth and prosperity from intrusive federal policies that encroach upon our legislative sovereignty,” said Bronwyn Eyre, Saskatchewan’s justice minister and…


Bruce Pardy: Canada’s Charter Was Naive From the Beginning

Commentary I was having lunch with a friend. She was complaining about the man in her life. “He won’t take charge in the relationship,” she lamented, “And when he does, he does it wrong.” Forty years ago, when Canada enacted the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, it asked the courts to take charge of our…