13 The Internal Exile of Quebecers in the Canada of the Charter

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction
5. Should We Cheer? Contested Constitutionalism and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms 3
6. Governance and Institutions
7. Legalise This: The Chartering of Canadian Politics 33
8. Rationalizing Judicial Power: The Mischief of Dialogue Theory 50
9. Courting Controversy: Strategic Judicial Decision Making 66
10. Legislative Activism and Parliamentary Bills of Rights: Institutional Lessons for Canada 86
11. Compromise and the Notwithstanding Clause: Why the Dominant Narrative Distorts Our Understanding 107
12. Policy Making and the Courts
13. Judicializing Health Policy: Unexpected Lessons and an Inconvenient Truth 129
14. National Security and the Charter 145
15. Canadian Language Rights: Liberties, Claims, and the National Conversation 169
16. Explaining the Impact of Legal Mobilization and Judicial Decisions: Official Minority Language Education Rights outside Quebec 187
17. Reference re Same-Sex Marriage: Making Sense of the Government’s Litigation Strategy 209
18. Citizenship and Identity
19. Bills of Rights as Instruments of Nation Building in Multinational States: The Canadian Charter and Quebec Nationalism 233
20. The Internal Exile of Quebecers in the Canada of the Charter 251
21. The Road Not Taken: Aboriginal Rights after the Re-Imagining of the Canadian Constitutional Order 263
22. Conclusion
23. The Charter and Canadian Democracy 287
24. Contributors 307
25. Index 311
26. Law and Society 319