The Constitutional debate of Canada is an ongoing debate covering various political issues regarding the fundamental law of the country. The debate can...

followed controversial and divisive constitutional debate in Canada seen during the patriation of the Constitution in 1982, and the subsequent collapse...

strong democratic traditions. Canada is a constitutional monarchy where the monarch is the ceremonial head of state. In practice, executive authority...

(in French: la société distincte) is a political term especially used during constitutional debate in Canada, in the second half of the 1980s and in the...

The constitutional history of Canada begins with the 1763 Treaty of Paris, in which France ceded most of New France to Great Britain. Canada was the colony...

Debate between monarchists and republicans in Canada has been taking place since before the country's Confederation in 1867, though it has rarely been...

federalist elites of Quebec, as well as with English Canada (see Constitutional Debate in Canada). Although Quebec's independence movement is a political...

interest in the constitutional debate and the three found the monarch "better informed on both the substance and politics of Canada's constitutional case...

multiculturalism, women's issues, constitutional, civil and human rights. She had also been involved in the constitutional debate in Canada. She was a member of the...

English-speaking Loyalists in Central Canada, the Constitutional Act of 1791 divided the province of Canada into French-speaking Lower Canada (later Quebec) and...

traditions and conventions. Canada is one of the oldest constitutional monarchies in the world. The Constitution of Canada comprises core written documents...

The Canadian titles debate originated with the presentation to the House of Commons of Canada of the Nickle Resolution in 1917. This resolution marked...

still constitutional. There has been a debate among legal scholars as to whether the Supreme Court of Canada is entrenched in the Constitution of Canada. The...

that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was established as an unambiguously-constitutional-level Bill of Rights for all Canadians, governing...

Canadian flag debate (or Great Flag Debate) was a national debate that took place in 1963 and 1964 when a new design for the national flag of Canada was...

requires a constitutional amendment, whereas a similar change affecting the territories can be performed unilaterally by the Parliament of Canada or government...

law of Canada; no non-constitutional law may conflict with them, and none of them may be changed without following the amending formula given in Part V...

the Constitution has proven important in its interpretation. As Peter Hogg wrote in Constitutional Law of Canada, some have argued that, since the United...

Parliament in Canadian law, and implemented the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The monarch's constitutional powers and roles over Canada were not...

of checks and balances as offering Canada a more fair and conservative form of democracy. They debated constitutional changes that included an elected governor...

National Assembly in 1994. Bélanger-Campeau Commission Constitutional debate in Canada List of documents from the constitutional history of Canada Politics of...

the Aboriginal peoples of Canada; entrenched provincial jurisdiction over natural resources; provided for future constitutional conferences; and set out...

Quebec to symbolically endorse the 1982 constitutional amendments by providing for some decentralization of the Canadian federation. The proposed amendments...

which destroyed the citizen's ability to debate, to assemble or to associate freely would be contrary to Canada's democratic parliamentary system of government...

committee to resolve the ongoing issue of the lack of an official Canadian flag, sparking a debate about a flag change to replace the Union Flag. Out of three...

of Canada's constitutional federal structure and Westminster-style parliamentary democracy. The monarchy is the foundation of the executive (King-in-Council)...

Canadian constitutional law (French: droit constitutionnel du Canada) is the area of Canadian law relating to the interpretation and application of the...

hold leaders' debates is that the party leader is usually the party's presumed candidate to lead the government, because by constitutional convention he...

legislation passed by the Parliament of Canada that established the conditions under which the Government of Canada would enter into negotiations that might...

British law in 1966. The act did not originally have a short title, but by custom, it became known as the Constitutional Act, 1791 in Canada. In 1896, the...