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Acknowledgements

Some words of thanks: to Bennett Jones LLP for indulging me on

Fridays during my time there, and for permitting me to inict my

views on the public, both on Slaw and here; to Je Miller, Alisa

Posesorski, and Lesley Steeve at Irwin Law; to Steve Matthews and

Emma Durand-Wood at Slaw and Stem Legal; to Shaunna Mireau

of Slaw and Field Law; and to the many readers who have agreed

and disagreed with me, suggested topics and encouraged me to

keep going (notably, my parents, Joan Bilsland, Celia Chandler,

Joseph Petrie, James and Louise Reed, Barb Sheperd, and Angela

Swan). My sister and best reader Gay Guthrie provided helpful

non-lawyer comments. Michael Motala also reviewed the manu-

script and made good suggestions. For the index, I am grateful to

John Barkwell (freelanceindexing.com), who also spotted some

typos and infelicities.

For help of various kinds and permission to quote, I am grateful

to Borden Ladner Gervais LLP; Matthew Butterick; Keith Sipe and

Carolina Academic Press; Mary Bergin-Cartwright, Tom McKibbin,

and Shelagh Phillips in the permissions department at Oxford

University Press; Karen L Charney in Alumni Relations and Develop-

ment at UC Davis; Judith Fischer; Barry Glaspell; Ross Guberman,

Christopher Howse; Icon Books; the Hon Mr Justice John Laskin

of the Court of Appeal for Ontario; O’Connor’s; John O’Neill and

Fraser Nelson of The Spectator; Lynne Truss and David Higham