Notes

• Author: Gregory Tardi
• Pages: 179-198

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Notes

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 See Francis Fukuyama, e End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free

Press, ).

 e Economist Intelligence Unit, Democracy Index : In Sickness and in

Health ? (London, UK: February ), online: www.eiu.com/n/campaigns/

democracy-index-/mktoForm_anchor.

 EP ompson, Whigs and Hunters: e Origins of the Black Act (New York: Knopf

Doubleday, ).

  | The Need for Better Understanding of

Government and Governing

 Constitution Act,  (UK),  &  Vict, c , reprinted in RSC , App II,

No  [Constitution Act, ], online: laws.justice.gc.ca/PDF/CONST_TRD.pdf.

 Reference re Alberta Statutes, [] SCR .

 Notably Boucher v e King, [] SCR ,  CanLII  (SCC); Saumur v

City of Quebec, []  SCR ,  CanLII  (SCC), and Switzman v Elbling,

[] SCR ,  CanLII  (SCC).

 Bill C-, An Act to amend the Constitution of Canada, d Sess, th Parl, ,

online: primarydocuments.ca/wp-content/uploads///BillCst

ReadJune.pdf.

 Constitution Act, , above note .

POLITICAL LAW IN CANADA

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 Reference re Secession of Quebec, []  SCR  [Quebec Secession Reference] at

para .

 Ref re Remuneration of Judges of the Prov Court of PEI, []  SCR .

 Ontario v OPSEU, []  SCR ,  CanLII  (SCC), Referen ce re Prov-

incial Electoral Boundaries (Sask), []  SCR ; R v Oakes, []  SCR

,  CanLII  (SCC), Harvey v New Brunswick (Attorney General), []

 SCR ,  CanLII  (SCC).

 Beyond the work of the courts and the scholars, there have been many

popular attempts to def‌ine the notion of Democracy. One example is the

 CBC television series hosted by Patrick Watson entitled e Struggle for

Democracy. is was accompanied by a book bearing the same title (Toronto:

Lester & Orpen Dennys and CBC Enterprises, ). A more recent example

is the documentary entitled What Is Democracy? produced by Astra Taylor

that aired on TVO on  August . Such programs amply illustrate the

diculty of def‌ining the concept and staying on focus.

  SCC .

  ONCA  at para .

 Quebec Secession Reference, above note  at para  [emphasis added].

 Tom Bingham, e Rule of Law (London: Penguin Books, ) at .

 Roncarelli v Duplessis, [] SCR  at .

 Re Manitoba Language Rights, []  SCR  at paras  & .

 Code of Civil Procedure (Québec), CQLR, c C-..

 Reference re Code of Civil Procedure (Que), art ,  SCC  at headnote.

 Quebec Secession Reference, above note  at para .

 Unwritten Constitutional Principles: What Is Going On?, Remarks of the Right

Honourable Beverley McLachlin, PC, CJ ( December ), online:

www.scc-csc.ca/judges-juges/spe-dis/bm----eng.aspx?pedisable=true.

 Refah Partisi (e Welfare Party) and others v Turkey [GC], Nos /, /,

/, and /, ECHR .

 Mathieu-Mohin and Clerfayt v Belgium, No /, ECHR .

 Selahattin Demirtaş v Turkey (No ) [GC], No /, ECHR .

 e best example of this dilemma today is the People’s Republic of China. In

a succession of fundamental documents that should be understood to be pri-

marily geared for foreign consumption, that country calls itself D/democratic.

From the Canadian perspective, these very documents, extolling one-party

rule and the development of “whole-process people’s democracy,” show how

it is not. See Document No  (also referred to as the Communiqué on the Current

State of the Ideological Sphere, online: www.chinaf‌ile.com/document--chinaf‌ile-

translation), an instrument of the Communist Party of China dating

from , and a document entitled China: Democracy at Works, issued on