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  • Some Thoughts on the Prorogation Case, MacKinnon v. Canada

    In previous posts, I mused about the possibility of a challenge to Prime Minister Trudeau’s advice to the Governor General to prorogue Parliament from January 6 to March 24 of this year. There is now a challenge and, moreover, it has been expedited by the Chief Justice of the Federal Court: the hear … Read more »

  • Political Expediency in Administrative Law

    Following on from my previous post, here are some notes on cases involving decisions based on or influenced by political expediency… Padfield v Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food [1968] AC 997 concerned a statute providing that “A committee of investigation shall…be charged with the duty, i … Read more »

  • Ideological Decisions in Administrative Law

    I hope to post in the coming week about the challenge to the recent prorogation of the Canadian Parliament. I am speaking at three separate events in February (at uOttawa, the Runnymede Society’s Law and Freedom conference, and the University of Alberta). For now, I have dug out a few pages of old l … Read more »

  • Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium 2025, “Justifying Judicial Review”: Registration Open

    I am pleased to say the lineup for this year’s Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium has been confirmed. You can register here for the individual sessions and/or join directly from the links below. The theme is “Justifying Judicial Review”: Western constitutional democracies live in turbulent t … Read more »

  • Will the Trudeau Prorogation Be Challenged in Court?

    Following from my previous post and based on Prime Minister’s Trudeau remarks this morning, I would think the prospects for any successful challenge are low. The Prime Minister announced this morning that he would be resigning both as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and from office as soon as … Read more »