Sentences with phrase «canadian constitutional democracy»
[2] This case demonstrates the operation and application of fundamental aspects of the Rule of Law, a cornerstone of Canadian constitutional democracy.
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That, it is said here, is the crux of the matter — the demand by the Canadian subsidiary of Texas - based Kinder Morgan Inc. that, in effect, Canada needs to stop acting like a constitutional democracy and start acting like a petro - tyranny, or Kinder Morgan will take its pipeline and go home.
Back in 2007, Justice Scalia came to Montreal, to debate his Canadian colleague, Justice Binnie, about the role of a judge in a democracy — which they both took to mean constitutional interpretation.
«This is a historic legal constitutional precedent that has been set that is in my view, extremely dangerous for Canadian parliamentary democracy,» he says.