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• Date: 22 September 2022
• Published date: 22 September 2022

A selection of recent publications relating to parliamentary studies prepared with the assistance of the Library of Parliament (May 2022--August 2022).

Bussey, Barry W. "Parliamentary privilege: An issue of conscience." The Lawyer's Daily 3p, June 1,2022.

* On May 13, Ontario Superior Court Justice John Fregeau issued his decision in Alford v. Canada (Attorney General) 2022 ONSC 2911, striking down s. 12 of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians Act, S.C. 2017, c. 15, as being unconstitutional.

Johnston, Michael A. "Changing of the constitutional guard: why the Chief Justice of Canada should never also be the Governor General." The Advocate 80 (3): 34143, May 2022.

* In Canada, separation of powers among the executive, legislative and judicial branches--an important requirement for a vibrant democracy--is more illusory than real ... for six months, the Chief Justice of Canada granted royal assent to nascent laws, signed Orders in Council and acted as Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Armed Forces. It is, no doubt, a position he never sought, and one his predecessors have also filled, but it is a position a justice ought never to...