We explore what is in the Charter, as well as arguments for and against the Charter and the application of the Charter.

We explore the Federal power over Criminal Law, from a constitutional division of powers perspective.

We discuss provincial power over Property and Civil Rights and federal power over Trade and Commerce, as well as touching on federal power over Peace, Order and Good Government.

We discuss operability and applicability analysis in Canadian federalism (paramountcy and interjurisdictional immunity), touching on Moloney, CWB and PHS.

In this part of lecture 4 we discuss validity analysis, including the pith and substance framework, the Securities Reference, the Same Sex Marriage Reference, the double aspect doctrine, and the ancillary powers (necessarily incidental) doctrine.

Here we discuss the Persons Case, Comeau, and DTESUAV, touching on themes of the "living tree", federalism, stare decisis, and standing.

In this lecture we cover the first half of Chapter 11 of the book, looking at pages 527-564

In the first half of this lecture, we explore administrative law, including how it fits within the broader public law framework. This podcast (somewhat counter intuitively) covers the second half of Chapter 11 of the book - we will come back to the first half in the next podcast.

In this relatively brief episode we will provide a high level introduction to statutory interpretation.

Here we explore Chapter 8 of the text, concerning the Canadian judicial structure.