Constitutional Law Briefs
Dissent (McIntyre):
• What’s the harm of advertising at children?? Is their welfare really at risk?
• FOE should not be suppressed except in cases where urgent and compelling reasons exist and then only to the extent and for the time necessary for the protection of the community
RJR MacDonald Inc. v. AG (1995) Gov’t concedes prohibition on [...]
Social Development Constitutional Law
LIMITS AND CHANGE OVER TIME:
s.1. The CCRF guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
• Text indicates Charter rights are NOT absolute; gov’t can limit them
Two main structural components of s.1:
1. Requirement that all [...]
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