PANDEMIC POWERS AND THE CONSTITUTION

Note: This was originally published on April 16, 2020 on ABlawg: Joel Reardon, Emily Laidlaw, and Greg Hagen, “COVID-19 and Cellphone Surveillance” (April 16, 2020), online: ABlawg, https://ablawg.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Blog_JR_EL_GH_COVID.pdf. One of [...]

1       Le droit prend le relais de la médecine impuissante à juguler un virus La vague des mesures drastiques de confinement prises à travers le monde dans [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic raises countless legal issues, many of which touch on the distinctions between normality/emergency and the importance of sustaining the commitment to the rule of law and [...]

One of Canada’s forgotten constitutional freedoms has quickly become one of [...]

Legislation Commented On: Regulations Act, RSA 2000, c R-14 and Public Health Orders issued in relation to COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic has become a rare opportunity to study the [...]

Canada’s lack of a coordinated response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the improvisatory nature of (at least many) individual provincial responses suggest that the Canadian approach to public health [...]

Since the launch of the Centre for Constitutional Studies' Pandemic Powers and the Constitution Blog, a number of thought-provoking posts have been penned by leading scholars in the areas [...]

In the inaugural post for this series on Canadian law and the COVID-19 pandemic, David Dyzenhaus argued that the federal government should not invoke the federal Emergencies Act, but [...]

The past month has brought sweeping, unprecedented change as individuals, communities and nations around the world struggle to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Efforts to contain the virus include [...]

INTRODUCTION On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) a pandemic. The world, and the administration of justice in Canada, changed dramatically within days. As pertinent [...]

On June 16, 2019, the Quebec legislature invoked Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in order to suspend, with regard to the Act respecting the [...]

Individuals and communities around the globe have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.  As federal and provincial governments introduce emergency measures in response to the evolving situation, the actions [...]

  Introduction In just over four months, a single case of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China spread to nearly 4 million people and caused over 270,000 fatalities, leaving the world [...]

Public health is quite different from traditional healthcare. Whereas healthcare involves medical interventions between health professionals and individual patients, the field of public health attempts to maintain the health [...]

Part 2 of 2 In Part 1 of his Blog Post, Professor Choudhry explores the constitutional issues arising from lock downs (such as freedoms of religion, expression, assembly  and [...]

Part 1 of 2 Over the past two months, the federal government, the provinces, and municipalities have exercised a variety of legal powers to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Not [...]

As part of the Verfassungsblog's excellent symposium on legal responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, Dean Knight penned an especially insightful contribution on New Zealand, noting how the response alla fine del [...]

Canada is in full emergency mode in its bid to flatten the pandemic curve.  But so far the federal government has not declared a federal state of emergency in [...]

The Centre for Constitutional Studies welcomes posts for our ‘Pandemic Powers and the Constitution Blog’. The Centre for Constitutional Studies is publishing a series of Blog posts exploring various constitutional issues arising from [...]