Information About Double Aspect

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 »

I have previously mentioned Emmett Macfarlane’s Substack post written in response to my and Michael Plaxton‘s critiques of the Supreme Court of Canada for the inconsistency of its judgments on constitutional interpretation, as well as, in my case, other issues. Professor Macfarlane argues that we ar … Read more »

My last several posts have been concerned with the Supreme Court of Canada’s failure not only to follow but even to acknowledge its own recent precedents on constitutional interpretation, first in Taylor v Newfoundland and Labrador, 2026 SCC 5 and then in Alford v Canada (Attorney General), 2026 SCC … Read more »