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Book SynopsisFour decades after the adoption of the Constitution Act, 1982, Constitutional Crossroads assesses its legacy, focusing on the themes of rights, reconciliation, and constitutional change.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Complex Legacies: The Promise, Challenges, and Impact of the Constitution Act, 1982 / Emmett Macfarlane and Kate Puddister
Part 1: Institutional Relationships
1 The Political Purposes of the Charter: Four Decades Later / Mark S. Harding
2 Revisiting Judicial Activism / Emmett Macfarlane
3 Revisiting the Charter Centralization Thesis / Gerald Baier
4 Autochthony and Influence: The Charter’s Place in Transnational Constitutional Discourse / Mark Tushnet
5 It Works in Practice, but Does It Work in Theory? Accepting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as a National Symbol / Andrew McDougall
6 Charter Talk: How Canadian Media Cover Rights and Politics / Erin Crandall, Andrea Lawlor, and Kate Puddister
7 Notwithstanding the Media: Section 33 of the Charter after Toronto v Ontario / Dave Snow and Eleni Nicolaides
Part 2: Charter Rights
8 Policing Partisan Self-Interest? The Charter and Election Law in Canada / Tamara A. Small
9 The Most Important Charter Right? The Rise and Future of Section 7 / Matthew Hennigar
10 Sex Work, Abjection, and the Constitution / Brenda Cossman
11 Carter Compliance: Litigating for Access to Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada / Eleni Nicolaides
12 The Charter and the RCMP / Kent Roach
13 The Charter of Whites: Systemic Racism and Critical Race Equality in Canada / Joshua Sealy-Harrington
14 Canada’s Sex Problem: Section 15 and Women’s Rights / Kerri A. Froc
15 Quebec and the “Sign Law” Thirty Years after Ford and Devine: Ford Construit Solide / James B. Kelly
16 Language Rights and the Charter: Forging the Next Forty Years / Stéphanie Chouinard
17 The Provincial Courts of Appeal and Section 24(2) of the Charter / Lori Hausegger, Danielle McNabb, and Troy Riddell
Part 3: Reconciliation
18 Canadians’ Homeland Has Changed since Patriation Brought the Constitution Home / Peter H. Russell
19 Indigenous Rights and the Constitution Act, 1982: Forty Years On and Still Fishing for Rights / Jeremy Patzer and Kiera Ladner
20 Using the Master’s Institutional Instruments to Dismantle the Master’s Goal of Indigenous-Rights Certainty / Rebecca Major and Cynthia Stirbys
21 Beyond Consultation: A Research Agenda to Investigate Partnerships and Comanagement in Land Governance / Minh Do
22 Indigenous Sovereignty, Canadian Constitutionalism, and Citizens Plus: The Unended Quest of Canada’s Original Hedgefox / Samuel V. LaSelva
Part 4: Constitutional Change
23 The Invisible Transformation of Canada’s Constitutional Amendment Rules / Richard Albert
24 Still Not Cheering: Understanding Quebec’s Perspective on 1982 / Félix Mathieu and Dave Guénette
25 Cracks in the Foundation: The Crown and Canada’s Constitutional Architecture / Philippe Lagassé
26 The Urban Gap / Ran Hirschl
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