Information About Double Aspect

In years past, I had an occasional series of posts going to address the various meanings and implications of “Lord Acton’s Dictum” — power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I have canvassed the insights on it we can get from The Lord of the Rings and from The Master and Marga … Read more »

Last week, the Supreme Court released its judgment in Democracy Watch v Canada (Attorney General), 2026 SCC 28, holding that privative clauses that purport to oust judicial review on questions of fact and law are an unconstitutional violation of the judicature provisions of the Constitution Act, 186 … Read more »

Some personal news, and of a happier varierty than in my last post (though it won’t be news to those who have seen my posts on Twitter and Bluesky): a couple of weeks ago I signed a contract for what will be my first monograph, to be published by Hart. The (provisional) title is Interpreting the Sup … Read more »

For the last few years, I had been a Senior Fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute. Today, I have resigned from that position, for much the same reasons as I had joined when invited to do by Aaron Wudrick, the then-director of domestic policy. MLI is many things, of course, but relevantly to me i … Read more »

This is, I hope, the lost post in the sort-of-series occasioned by the Supreme Court of Canada’s recent unprincipled and inconsistent decisions on constitutional interpretation. In my comment on Alford v Canada (Attorney General), 2026 SCC 14, I wrote that, despite my harsh criticism of the Supreme … Read more »