Against Judicial Activism: The Decline of Freedom and Democracy in Canada

✍ Scribed by Rory Leishman

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 959
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The Charter and expansive versions of the federal and provincial human rights codes were supposed to safeguard the human rights and fundamental freedoms of Canadians. Rory Leishman argues that this experiment in radical constitutional reform has failed because judicial activists and human rights adjudicators have read their ideological preferences into the law rather than upholding the law as originally understood.

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