Title: Recreating Canada : essays in honour of Paul Weiler /
Authors: Morck, Randall.; Weiler, Paul C.; Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.).
Publisher: School of Policy Studies, Queen's University,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Canada.; Constitutional law Canada; Civil rights Canada; Canada Politics and government.
Abstract: "In 2005 a Harvard conference honoured Paul Weiler, originally from Thunder Bay, Ontario, who drafted the Notwithstanding Clause of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and created the Canada Program at Harvard University.
Contents: Opening Remarks / Paul Weiler -- Radically Moderate Law Reform / Paul Weiler -- Explaining Differences in Environmental Governance Patterns between Canada, Italy, and the United States / Albert Breton, Anthony Scott, and Angela Fraschini -- The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and the Concept of Nation / Alan C. Cairns -- Sword of Damocles or Paper Tiger: Canada's Continuing Debate over the Notwithstanding Clause / Thomas S. Axworthy -- The Conundrum of Electoral Districting in Canada / John C. Courtney -- Well-being and the Workplace: What Roles for Unions and Gender? / John F. Helliwell and Haifang Huang -- The Conservative Party, 1965-2006: Death and Rebirth? / Richard Johnston -- Columbia Treaty Embodied: The Implications of Commodified Water / Joy Parr -- Shareholder Democracy in Canada / Randall Morck -- Multiculturalism in Question: Métissage, Creolization, and Hybridity -- Shades of Meaning and Mixed Messages / Laurier Turgeon.