Former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau Once Wrote That While It

question 13

Essay

Former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau once wrote that while it was the fashion to be critical of the federalism rulings of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, if the JCPC had not interpreted the constitution as it did, Quebec separatism might have been an accomplished fact and not simply a possibility. Discuss some of the early court rulings on the federal division of powers and explain why you think Trudeau was mainly right or wrong.

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