Government of Canada

About: Government of Canada is a government organization based out in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Monetary policy & Productivity. The organization has 796 authors who have published 886 publications receiving 21366 citations. The organization is also known as: federal government of Canada & Her Majesty's Government.

La sécession et les vertus de la clarté (Secession and the Virtues of Clarity)

Abstract: French Abstract: Le phenomene de la secession est considere avec une mefiance certaine par la communaute internationale, voire avec une veritable aversion lorsqu’elle est faite de facon unilaterale. Cette mefiance transparait dans le droit interne des Etats, dans le droit international et dans la pratique des Etats. Meme quand la secession ressort comme une solution logique et pratique – Kosovo, Sud-Soudan – elle n’est envisagee qu’avec beaucoup de precaution. L’avis rendu en 1998 par la Cour supreme du Canada relativement a la secession du Quebec pourrait aider la communaute internationale a etablir dans quelles circonstances et selon quelles modalites la delimitation de nouvelles frontieres internationales entre des populations pourrait devenir une solution juste et applicable. En ce sens, cet avis de la Cour supreme du Canada, en plus d’influencer pour le mieux le debat d’aujourd’hui sur l’unite canadienne, a une portee universelle qui pourrait aider a resoudre pacifiquement les situations complexes et delicates de rupture nationale, sur la base de la clarte, de la legalite et de la justice pour tous.English Abstract: The phenomenon of secession is considered with mistrust, even aversion when effected unilaterally. This mistrust can express itself at three levels: domestic law, international law and state practice. Even in circumstances when secession can be considered as a logical and practical solution – Kosovo, South Sudan – it is envisaged only with the utmost caution. The 1998 opinion rendered by the Supreme Court of Canada concerning the reference on the secession of Quebec could have a positive impact in this regard. It may help the international community clarify under what circumstances, and by what means, the delineation of new international borders between populations could be a just and applicable solution. In addition to influencing – for the best – today’s debate on Canadian unity, the Court’s opinion has a universal scope and significance that may help peacefully solve complex and delicate national breakup situations along the principles of clarity, the rule of law and justice for all.

Firm Entry and Exit in Canada, 2000 to 2008

Abstract: This paper examines firm entry and exit patterns in the Canadian business sector by using the Longitudinal Employment Analysis Program database developed by Statistics Canada. Our primary purpose is to present stylized facts and provide descriptive analysis of the entry and exit patterns in the Canadian economy in order to form a solid foundation for future in-depth theoretical and empirical studies of firm dynamics. In particular, this paper focuses on the relative importance of entrants and exiters in terms of both number and employment, the persistence of entry and exit patterns over time, and the correlation between industry entry and exit rates.

Comment on “The Origins of Judicial Review in Canada”

Abstract: Professor Jennifer Smith's article is of particular interest in the light of our recent history because it reminds us that the debate over the role of the courts in the enforcement of the constitution did not begin with the federal-provincial disputes of the last 15 years over the entrenchment of a Charter of Rights. The survey of the debates surrounding Confederation in the 1860s and the establishment of the Supreme Court in the 1870s is an important reminder that we have for a rather long time faced this contradiction in a constitution which engrafted a system of limited government (originally limited by the needs of federalism, now also by the protection of individual rights) onto a parliamentary system which has recognized for three centuries the supremacy of parliament. It is a major thesis of this article that our experience with judicial review under the constitution of 1867, when compared to our expectations expressed at the time of Confederation and of the subsequent enactment of the Supreme Court Act, will give us some indication as to how accurately the expectations recently expressed forjudicial review under the Charter may be fulfilled. I would suggest that there are some important differences between the circumstances of the 1860s and 1870s and the circumstances of 1982 in this respect which perhaps make the future of judicial review more predictable now. The Fathers of Confederation in 1867 and their contemporaries who established the Supreme Court in 1875 had a very limited understanding of judicial review. It had not been practised in Canada prior to 1867 and even the United States experience, about which these British North American statesmen seemed to have been reasonably well informed, was not highly developed. It must be kept in mind that the Reconstruction amendments to the American constitution (the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments) were only adopted in the period 1865-1870 and did not attract a great deal of judicial