Illegal Fishing, Indigenous Treaty Rights and Reconciliation 1 Thank you for inviting me. I am a non-partisan witness with no personal interest at stake. My relevant legal practice before my retirement was […]
Lessons in Protest Management Learned from the Emergencies Act.
Protests, blockades and other forms of civil disobedience are growing in popularity in Canada; and the federal government depended on a blunt instrument – the Emergencies Act (the “EA”) as the way […]
The Supreme Court of Canada Finds Part of the Federal Impact Assessment Act Unconstitutional. So What?
Introduction The recent Supreme Court of Canada decision holding that parts of the federal Impact Assessment Act are ‘unconstitutional’ caused cheering in several provincial capitals and in the media. However, there is […]
Canada’s Rising Carbon Tax and the Supreme Court
Note to readers: A somewhat different, shorter version of this post was published on March 31, 2022 by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) think tank. Your Rising Cost of Energy (and everything else) […]
Climate Porn: the Hottest Day on Record
Escape Your Bubble What you read on line about climate change is carefully targeted by social media algorithms and cookies to keep you in your ideological comfort zone. The TV news is […]
The Abortion Debate Needs More Thought and Less Emotion
By now the US Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs, which overruled Roe, is common knowledge. But what these two decisions actually decided is often misunderstood or misrepresented. And the problems they are […]
My New Article in the ERQ
was published today, here: https://energyregulationquarterly.ca/articles/all-that-glitters-isnt-green-or-renewable#sthash.zpg3M3cw.dpbs
After Roe v Wade?
Introduction An extraordinary leak of a draft decision from the US Supreme Court strongly suggests that the majority of the court is leaning towards overruling its landmark precedent in Roe v Wade. […]
The Fraser Institute Published My Article on Canada’s Net Zero Law
This is a somewhat different, peer reviewed and more scholarly article than I posted here earlier. Here is a link to the publication: fraserinstitute.org
Elections in Canada: Are We Voting in a Parliamentary Democracy or an Elected Monarchy?
Introduction Pollsters tell us many Canadians are unhappy with their government. Not just the federal government, but governments at all levels. They report a sense of disappointment. Candidates over-promise and then after the […]