1 The Political Purposes of the Charter

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments x
4. Introduction 3
5. Institutional Relationships
6. The Political Purposes of the Charter 23
7. Revisiting Judicial Activism 41
8. Revisiting the Charter Centralization Thesis 58
9. Autochthony and Infuence 72
10. It Works in Practice, but Does It Work in Theory? 86
11. Charter Talk 102
12. Notwithstanding the Media 121
13. Charter Rights
14. Policing Partisan Self-Interest? 143
15. The Most Important Charter Right? 160
16. Sex Work, Abjection, and the Constitution 177
17. Carter Compliance 193
18. The Charter and the RCMP 214
19. The Charter of Whites 234
20. Canada’s Sex Problem 256
21. Quebec and the “Sign Law” Thirty Years after Ford and Devine 275
22. Language Rights and the Charter 293
23. The Provincial Courts of Appeal and Section 24(2) of the Charter 311
24. Reconciliation
25. Canadians’ Homeland Has Changed since Patriation Brought the Constitution Home 333
26. Indigenous Rights and the Constitution Act, 1982 348
27. Using the Master’s Institutional Instruments to Dismantle the Master’s Goal of Indigenous-Rights Certainty 367
28. Beyond Consultation 384
29. Indigenous Sovereignty, Canadian Constitutionalism, and Citizens Plus 401
30. Constitutional Change
31. The Invisible Transformation of Canada’s Constitutional Amendment Rules 421
32. Still Not Cheering 438
33. Cracks in the Foundation 454
34. The Urban Gap 472
35. Contributors 491
36. Index 494