“’Tis a rock—a crag—a cape? A cape? say rather a peninsula!” The Supreme Court of Canada’s Revisitation of the National Concern Doctrine

Authors

Jean Leclair, Faculty of Law, Université de Montréal

Abstract

After providing an overview of the jurisprudential context prior to the References re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, this paper examines how the majority in that judgment refashioned the national concern doctrine to allow both levels of government to legislate over the very same matter of carbon pricing.

Citation Information

Leclair, Jean. "“’Tis a rock—a crag—a cape? A cape? say rather a peninsula!” The Supreme Court of Canada’s Revisitation of the National Concern Doctrine." The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference 108. (2023).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.60082/2563-8505.1432
https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/sclr/vol108/iss1/1

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