Editors’ note: The blog has a number of country correspondents who report from time to time on matters of interest to a UK audience. Prof Webber is the blog’s Canada correspondent.
Over the past year, Canada has undertaken an important remaking of its constitution. It has (1) given constitutional status to an uncertain number of provisions of the Supreme Court Act, (2) introduced a constitutional right to strike, and (3) introduced a constitutional right to assisted death, among other changes. That the people of Canada have done all this in such a concentrated span of time betrays the claim that the Canadian constitution is the ‘hardest to amend in the world’.
How have they done so? By employing a clever strategy. The people of Canada have avoided the politically fraught constitutional amendment provisions and instead appealed to that special, unmentioned, and politically rather straightforward constitutional congress that goes…
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