SPECIAL ISSUE - The State of Canada's Constitutional Democracy

This Special Issue of the Forum is a collection of articles presented at a Symposium held at the University of Toronto in February 2016 on “The State of Canada’s Constitutional Democracy”. The Symposium was organized by Cheryl Milne (Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights) and Professor Lorraine Weinrib (University of Toronto), and Patricia Paradis (Centre for Constitutional Studies, University of Alberta). Its purpose was to examine the extent to which current Canadian governance is complying with modern constitutional principles.

It is the organizers’ hope that the publication of these conference proceedings will broaden and deepen our understanding of the reform projects discussed at the “State of Canada’s Constitutional Democracy” Symposium that lie ahead.

Introduction

Lorraine Weinrib and Patricia Paradis

Symposium Summary: The State of Canada's Constitutional Democracy

Cheryl Milne, John Greiss, and Deborah Boswell

Renovating Canada's Constitutional Architecture: An Examination of the Government's Democratic Reform Initiatives

Josh Hunter

Judicial Review of Ministerial Advice to the Crown

Mark D Walters

The Committee Process: Platform for Participation or Political Theatre?

Cara Faith Zwibel

Accessing with Dinosaurs: Protecting Access to Government Information in the Cretaceous Period of Canadian Democracy

Vincent Kazmierski

Accessible Information and Constitutional Democracy: Who Counts?

Jennifer Raso

Legislative Vehicles and Formalized Charter Review

Charlie Feldman

A Project to Reduce Canadians' Constitutional Illiteracy

Peter H Russell

A Recent History of Government Responses to Constitutional Litigation

Carissima Mathen

Political Accountability in Appointments to the Supreme Court of Canada

John D Whyte