Sentences with phrase «constitutional affairs]»

The Supreme Court of Canada will shortly tell us what constitutional hurdles must be jumped if we are to reform the Senate — or abolish it outright.

The justices will consider presidential authority to keep nation safe and constitutional protections against religious discrimination

Were the old deemed to have a constitutional right to preclude the entry of the new into the markets of the old, economic progress might grind to a halt.

Let's assume that abolishing the Senate will prove to be too steep a constitutional hill to climb.

News Release Independent Senator Doug Black calls on the Government of Canada to immediately refer his bill and the constitutional question regarding Ottawa's ability to regulate the Trans Mountain pipeline to the Supreme Court of Canada for an expedited hearing.

In reality, however, a major constitutional question would remain.

Under the Canadian constitutional framework, the negotiation of international trade agreements falls under the jurisdiction of the federal government.

Leach appears to assume that the federal government lacks the constitutional jurisdiction to impose its pan-Canadian carbon price on unwilling provinces.

Since NAFTA was approved by Congress under an implementing law, some constitutional scholars suggest the president would need to ask Congress to vote to withdraw from the agreement.

As a matter of constitutional law, the federal government has ample authority in this area.

The legal bottom line: As a matter of constitutional jurisdiction, the federal government does not need Alberta's buy - in to legally enact and implement its national climate change policy.

Perhaps Premier Notley can square that constitutional circle?

«That's against his or her constitutional rights...»

Now, some constitutional law purists (not to mention a number of criminal law professors) maintain that the criminal law power should not be used for matters of regulation as opposed to outright prohibitions based on grounds of morality.

«If it's determined that a prospective law violates the constitutional protections to freedom of religion to which all Canadians are entitled,» Kenney said on Parliament Hill, «we will defend those rights vigorously.»

But even if that were the case, and here the evidence suggests the opposite (Saskatchewan, for example, remains unmoved by Alberta's leadership), the federal government's ample constitutional power is a far simpler means of solving this collective action problem.

The U.S. government officials are also accused of exceeding their constitutional authority.

The Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) is a charity dedicated to defending constitutional rights and freedoms.

Only by knowing this, can present - day Canadians know the meaning of our constitutional law.

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«We protect the constitutional freedoms of Canadians through education, communication and litigation.»

See, e.g., «Trump's Hotel Lodges a Constitutional Problem,» Bloomberg View (Nov. 21, 2016).

The CCF works to ensure that Canadians have the knowledge to recognize and protect their constitutional rights and historical liberties.

Gulati and Rasmussen's paper focuses on this question, arguing that, as a constitutional matter, the United States may not prohibit Puerto Rico from enacting its own bankruptcy - like restructuring process while offering no alternative mechanism.

The state has not passed a single balanced budget since 2001, despite a constitutional requirement to do so.

Italians will go to the polls in October over a constitutional reform that PM Matteo Renzi has made the centerpiece of his agenda to jump start an economy that hasn't grown meaningfully since 2000.

Former CIA Director and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told CBS News» Jeff Pegues on Friday that the Nunes memo's release is going to do some «very serious damage» and that the president's distrust of the Justice Department and the FBI could create a «constitutional crisis.»

Oliva said he was looking forward to meeting with more students on Wednesday but warned that when dealing with constitutional rights, «we have to be very careful» and the solutions should focus on more than guns.

Working behind the scenes, members of the old establishment, some of them close to Mr. Mubarak and the country's top generals, also helped finance, advise and organize those determined to topple the Islamist leadership, including Naguib Sawiris, a billionaire and an outspoken foe of the Brotherhood; Tahani el - Gebali, a former judge on the Supreme Constitutional Court who is close to the ruling generals; and Shawki al - Sayed, a legal adviser to Ahmed Shafik, Mr. Mubarak's last prime minister, who lost the presidential race to Mr. Morsi.

In the past decade, America has seen its first African - American president, the constitutional recognition of a right to same - sex marriage, and a new discourse on gender identity and workplace harassment.

Ramirez filed a challenge to his detention in Seattle federal court on Monday, arguing that the government violated his constitutional rights because he had work authorization under the DACA program, his lawsuit said.

The PMA supports a federal approach to sales tax reform because it will eliminate the Affiliate Nexus Tax laws that have devastated hundreds of thousands of affiliate marketers around the country, it is Constitutional, and it has a very good chance of passage.

Europe Uniting: The EC Model and Canada's Constitutional Debate, The Canada Round 7, by G. Bruce Doern.

Constitutional Property Rights Flanked by Lethbridge Conservative Member of Parliament Jim Hillyer and Lacombe - Ponoka MLA Rod Fox, Wildrose leader Danielle Smith announced her plans to introduce a motion calling on property rights to be included in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

A constitutional challenge launched by an anti-abortion group is scheduled to be heard in Federal Court on June 19.

Except that in his Tuesday budget speech, Morneau told the story of Joan, from Algonquin College, and thus another tip to federal attention — higher education, which also happens to be a provincial and constitutional responsibility.

That includes the equalization program, placed in the constitution in 1982 (though, as a now decade - old paper on the matter pointed out, its constitutional status is actually quite weak).

We engaged early with Mr. Modi when other western countries were reticent; we are colonial cousins and share a similar constitutional framework; and we have a vibrant diaspora that cares about India's future place in world.

The Chamber had a hand in that decision, having filed a brief before the Court in which it argued «that the fact that a speaker is a corporation is not a constitutional basis for suppressing its independent political speech.»»

The success of the concurrent delegations was an excellent example of how Canada can capitalize on some of its constitutional similarities with India — in this case, the devolution of power over issues such as education and national - resource management to the provinces — in order to improve relations for Canada as a whole.

Looming over all else is the ruling of the German Constitutional Court on the legality of the ESM on September 12.

And a constitutional - court ruling in Germany on the legality of the bloc's new bailout fund and elections in the Netherlands in which some lawmakers are advocating a euro - zone pullout — on the same September day — could rattle the careful politics of Europe's rescue attempts.

The Power of the Purse in a Revised Constitution: A Commentary on the Federal Constitutional Papers on Taxing Powers and the Federal Parliament's Power to Spend, by Claude E. Forget.

The Post's Sari Horwitz and Ellen Nakashima: «Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a Senate panel Wednesday that he believes... Trump has the constitutional authority to pardon anyone and does not need to confer with the Justice Department, which traditionally has assisted presidents in such decisions.

At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, someone asked Ben Franklin: «have we got a Republic or a Monarchy?»

Washington is weighing fresh trade retaliation after Venezuela's constitutional vote.

The country, suffering from skyrocketing inflation and rampant food and power shortages, is currently operating under a «constitutional state of emergency» as protestors call for the removal of President Nicolas Maduro.

«We're not ditching any Constitutional protections simply because the last person the president talked to today doesn't like them,» Sen. Ben Sasse (R - Neb.)

Our premiers and governors have essential roles in this process, given the constitutional divisions of power in our federal systems.

The US Declaration of Independence provided a constitutional and limited government, whose fundamental goal was to protect property rights and whose legitimacy came from empowerment by the people.