Table of Contents

Contents: The Labour Conventions Case: The Factual and Legal Context of the Labour Conventions Case - «There is Only One Heir to the Mother Country»: The Federal Government’s Sovereignist Arguments - «But We Are Equally Sisters»: The Provinces’ Federalist Arguments - «Canada is a Federation»: The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council – Treaty-Making in the Canadian Federation: Rebutting the Case for Plenary Federal Treaty-Making Powers - Making the Case for Provincial Treaty-Making Powers – Treaty Implementation in the Canadian Federation: Section 132 Cannot Be Judicially Revived - Section 91 and the Federal Powers Over «Peace, Order and Good Government» - Extra-Territoriality or the «Sufficient Connection» Doctrine - Constitutional Amendments.

About the Author

The Author: Hugo Cyr is Professor of Public Law and Legal Theory at the Université du Québec à Montréal and a member of the Québec Bar. He is a member of the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la diversité au Québec (CRIDAQ) and Vice President of the Chaire UNESCO d’étude des fondements philosophiques de la justice et de la société démocratique. He has been a Boulton Fellow at McGill University, a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada and a Visiting Researcher at the European Academy of Legal Theory. Professor Cyr has also taught at McGill University and the Université de Montréal.