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Policy voting part of #CPC18 is about to get underway! Lots of excitement as delegates get in place. There'll be debate on @ErinOTooleMP's fav: CANZUK agreement and @denisebatters will speak in favour of resolution on MAID/euthanasia. Also on agenda: abortion, Energy East, etc.
@ErinOTooleMP @denisebatters Of course, a Tory favourite, delegates will be asked to weigh in on Liberal plan for a national price on carbon. Not to prejudge the outcome, but that one might be as sure a thing as any of them ;)
There are 30 policy proposals to get through so @CandiceBergenMP says they're going to run this "like a really tight ship," not a lot of time for chit-chat. #CPC18
A rare defence of the #SCC's Comeau decision, from Yves Boisvert, on the basis that it prevented "a kind of constitutional chaos" and upheld provincial autonomy: plus.lapresse.ca/screens/ef6c6d… 1/
As if provinces (or, in another case, Parliament?) could acquire jurisdiction to act unconstitutionally by adverse possession, and as if autonomy were good in itself, and incapable of being used repressively. 2/
Mr. Boisvert writes that #FreeTheBeer was not a case about fundamental rights. But as @brianleecrowley argued, it very much is macdonaldlaurier.ca/supreme-court-… 3/4
Because of time difference, I'm 8 hours late to the #FreeTheBeer, and probably won't publish my blog post until tomorrow morning EDT. But, like others, I think the Comeau (canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/…) is an unprincipled, and in many ways self-contradictory decision.
Please see @MalcolmLavoie's op-ed: cbc.ca/news/opinion/s… (and also this thread: ), which explain many of the problems with the #SCC's decision.
See also the comments of @EmmMacfarlane: macleans.ca/opinion/in-its… and @cmathen: macleans.ca/news/canada/wh…, who make important points, though I do not fully agree with either of them.
