Articles for author: Vanessa MacDonnell

Miller II, Part II?

Earlier this week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he would resign as Prime Minister once a new Liberal leader was selected. He also revealed that he had advised the Governor General to prorogue Parliament and that she had granted the request, with Parliament set to return on March 24. Following the Prime Minister’s announcement, a judicial review application was filed in Federal Court challenging the prorogation. In this blog post, I analyse what we know about the legal challenge so far.

The Salience of “Writtenness” and “Unwrittenness” as Constitutional Categories in Canada

Canada's Constitution sits somewhere between the paradigms of a fully codified written and partially codified unwritten constitutional order. This blog post explains why the differentiation between the written and unwritten matters for our understanding of Canada's constitutional system with a view to terminological, institutional, proceduaral, and policial questions.