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Book SynopsisTrade and Commerce recovers a lost understanding of how the Canadian Constitution structures economic relations through commitments to secure property rights, local autonomy, economic integration, and free trade.
Trade Review“Malcom Lavoie persuasively demonstrates that it is only by understanding the text of the constitution against its political and economic backdrop that jurists can breathe life into that model of harmonious and productive relations. He gives Canadian judges a razor-sharp analysis of the economic vision of the division of powers, one that has been tangled beyond recognition by decades of scholarship. Trade and Commerce slices the Gordian knot decisively, and with ease and clarity.” Ryan Alford, Lakehead University and author of Seven Absolute Rights: Recovering the Foundations of Canada's Rule of Law
“[Trade and Commerce] is both theoretically important as well as practical. Lavoie’s arguments are exactly the type needed in the twenty-first century to make Canada a national economically integrated country that also respects local autonomy.” Alberta Law Review
