PSCI Scholar Spotlight: Dr. Emmett Macfarlane March 27th

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Join the latest scholar spotlight from the Department of Political Science with Dr. Emmett Macfarlane.

When: Friday March 27th 1:00 pm -2:00 pm
Where: TC - William M. Tatham Centre for Co-operative Education & Career Action
200 University Avenue West
Room: 2218
Waterloo, ON, CA  N2L 3G1

Regime Politics, The Supreme Court of Canada, and the Government of Justin Trudeau
In this talk, Dr. Macfarlane will speak on to the relationship between specific governments and the judiciary. Extending a previous study of the records of the Mulroney, Chrétien, and Harper governments before the Supreme Court of Canada, and applying a conception of political regimes adapted from American scholarship, this paper analyzes the impact of judicial review on the Trudeau governments’ legislative agenda. The paper draws on a dataset of all Supreme Court cases involving federal legislation challenged on Charter grounds during the Trudeau era (2015-2025), as well as a handful of relevant lower court cases involving highly salient policies. In so doing, the paper also re-examines the relevance of a ‘regimes’ lens of analysis in light of criticisms that the concept does not translate to the context of a parliamentary system.

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