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Final Program
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Saturday, April 13th
Professional Development Programme
Centre (Osgoode Hall)
1 Dundas Street, 26th
Floor
Toronto, Ontario
The Charter and Democracy
Session I: 9:00-10:30 (Roundtable)
I Judicial Review or Judicial Usurpation?
(ROOM C)
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Chair: Ray Bazowski
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Participants:
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Patrick Monahan, Osgoode Hall Law School, York
University
"The Charter at Twenty"
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Andrew Petter, University of Victoria Law School
"The Justification of Judicial Review: Twenty
Years of an Argument"
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Jamie Cameron, Osgoode Hall Law School, York
University
"Judicial Strategies for Interpreting the Charter"
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Michael Mandel, Osgoode Hall Law School
"The Charter versus Democracy"
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Peter Hogg, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
"The Charter of Rights and Democratic Dialogue"
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10:30-10:45: Coffee Break
Session II: 10:45-12:00
II (a) The Role and Public Perception
of Judges and Judging after the Charter (ROOM C)
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Chair: Lorne Sossin
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Participants:
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Peter McCormick, University of Lethbridge
"The Charter Fractures the Court: The Emergence
and Evolution of Disagreement Patterns on the
Supreme Court of Canada, 1984-2000"
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Richard Sigurdson, University of New Brunswick
"The Charter and the Attack on Canada's Judiciary"
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Joseph Fletcher, University of Toronto
"The Irony of Bills of Rights"
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II (b) The Charter and Group Litigation: The Promotion of Special
Interests or the Recognition of Diversity? (ROOM D)
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Chair: Janice Newton
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Participants:
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Miriam Smith, Carleton University
"Comparative and Methodological Considerations
on Civil Society Organizations: The Case of Lesbian
and Gay Rights, 1982-2002"
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Alexandra Dobrowolsky, St. Mary's University
"State Transformations and Transformative Constitutional
Struggles:
Comparing Women's Capacities and Concerns in 'Third
Way' Contexts"
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Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, McGill University
"The Judicialization of Interest Group Politics:
The Experience of the Canadian Feminist Movement"
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II (c) Tracking the Public/Private Divide:
Civil Society and the Charter
(ROOM B)
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Chair: Steve Newman
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Participants:
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Mark Tushnet, Georgetown University Law School
"A U.S. Perspective: Reflections on some Mis-steps
in Charter Interpretations"
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Leslie Jacobs, York University
"Charter Dialogue and Policy Development: The
Example of Health Care"
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Ray Bazowski, York University
"The Charter and the Public Domain"
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12:00-1:00: Lunch
The Charter and the Policy Process
Session III: 1:00-2:30
III (a) Governance under the Charter
(ROOM C)
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Chair: David Sugarman
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Participants:
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Janet Hiebert, Queen's University
"Governing Under the Influence of the Charter"
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James Kelly, Brock University
"Legislative Precision as an Emerging Principle
of Charter Review by the Supreme Court of Canada"
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Lorne Sossin, University of Toronto Law School
"The Charter and Administrative Discretion"
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Sujit Choudhry, University of Toronto Law School
"Racial and Ethnic Profiling: Statutory Discretion,
Constitutional Remedies, and Democratic Accountability"
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III(b) Aboriginal Rights and the Charter
(ROOM D)
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Chair: Ian Greene
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Participants:
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Kent McNeil, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
"Should the Charter of Rights and Freedoms Apply
to Aboriginal Government?"
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Paul Rynard, York University
"Is There a Canadian Public Interest in Aboriginal
Rights?"
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Peter Russell, University of Toronto
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III (c) The Charter at Work: Labour
and the Charter (ROOM B)
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Chair: Charles Smith
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Participants:
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Joel Bakan, University of British Columbia
"From Golf Games and Gun Clubs to Bread and Roses?:
Charter Labour Jurisprudence at Twenty"
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Larry Savage, York University
"Working to Rule: The Canadian Labour Congress
and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms"
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Judy Fudge, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
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2:30-2:45: Coffee Break
Session IV: 2:45-4:15
IV (a) Community and the Individual
under the Charter (ROOM C)
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Chair: Bruce Elman
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Participants:
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Rainer Knopff, University of Calgary
"Civility, Toleration, and Non-Judgementalism:
The Case of Trinity Western"
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Stephen Newman, York University
"Law, Conscience and Community: Toleration and
the Charter"
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Ian Brodie, University of Western Ontario
"From NAACP to LEAF: American Legal Exports to
Canada?"
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Lorraine Weinrib, Faculty of Law and Department
of Political Science, University of Toronto
"The Charter's Promise of Equal Citizenship"
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IV (b) A Nation of Our Own? The Nationalizing Influences of
the Charter (ROOM B)
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Chair: James Kelly
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Participants:
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Reginald Whitaker, York University
"The Flight from Politics: Rethinking the Legalization
of Politics"
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Gerald Kernerman, University of Toronto
"Con/founding the Charter: Canadians Debate the
Reference to the ‘Supremacy of God'"
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Christopher Manfredi, McGill University
"Citizenship and the Charter"
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Ian Greene, York University
"The Charter and National Unity" |
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IV (c) Towards a Just Society? Charter Values and Social Policy
(ROOM D)
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Chair: Charles Smith
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Participants:
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David Shugarman, York University
"Strengthening Democratic Charter Values"
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Duncan Cameron, University of Ottawa
"Could the Poor Benefit from a Social Charter?"
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Sonia Lawrence, Osgoode Hall Law School, York
University
"Does the Charter Protect the Poor?"
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Martha Jackman, University of Ottawa Law School
"Presuming Innocence and Proving Guilt: Using
the Charter at Twenty"
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