Category Archives: Succession (Sovereign)

André Binette and Rob Nicholson on Motard & Taillon’s Legal Challenge to the Succession Law

Posted on 2013/06/11 by J.W.J. Bowden

CTV News André Binette, the lawyer representing Professors Motard and Taillon, appeared on CTV News on 11 June 2013 to discuss their application challenging the constitutionality of Canada’s succession law. http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/royal-succession-laws-challenged-in-bid-to-renew-constitutional-debate-1.1320560 Binette pointed out that this case will ultimately rest … Continue reading →

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Professors of Law Motard & Taillon Challenge Canada’s Succession Law

Posted on 2013/06/07 by J.W.J. Bowden

Patrick Taillon and Genevieve Motard, Professors of Law at Laval University, have filed a motion to institute proceedings of declaratory judgement in the Quebec Superior Court against the succession law that Parliament hastily rushed through in March 2013. Taillon and … Continue reading →

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Succession Falls Under the “Office of Queen”

Posted on 2013/02/13 by J.W.J. Bowden

This brief syllogism explains why succession to the Crown of Canada falls under the “office of Queen” of s.41(a) of the Constitution Act, 1982. 1. The Crown is as corporation sole. The Supreme Court of Canada: “The Crown is technically … Continue reading →

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My Column in the Ottawa Citizen: Why the Harper Government’s Succession Bill Is Unconstitutional

Posted on 2013/02/06 by J.W.J. Bowden

In 2011, the prime ministers of the 16 Commonwealth Realms agreed in principle that each country should change its succession in two ways. First, male primogeniture would be replaced with equal primogeniture, so that the first-born child rather than the … Continue reading →

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The Harper Government’s (Probably Unconstitutional) Bill on Succession to the Crown

Posted on 2013/01/30 by J.W.J. Bowden

The Parliament of Canada has just updated the Notice Paper of the House of Commons. The Minister of Justice will soon table a bill relating to succession to the Crown called An Act to assent to alterations in the law touching … Continue reading →

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