Introduction: The Constitution of Canada in a New KeyRichard Albert, Paul Daly, and Vanessa MacDonnell 1. The Most Opaque Branch? The (Un)accountable Growth of Executive Power in Modern Canadian GovernmentMary Liston 2. The Future of Constitutional Change in Canada: Examining Our Legal, Political, and Jurisprudential StraitjacketEmmett Macfarlane 3. Section 96: Striking a Balance between Legal Centralism and Legal PluralismPaul Daly 4. Canada’s "Constitution outside the Courts": Provincial Non-enforcement of Constitutionally Suspect Federal Criminal Laws as Case StudyWade K. Wright 5. Cooperative Federalism in Canada and Quebec’s Changing AttitudesNoura Karazivan 6. Religious and Political Communities in the Canadian Judicial Imagination: Two Tensions, Two QuestionsHoward Kislowicz 7. Collective Diversity and Jurisdictional Accommodations in Constitutional PerspectiveAsha Kaushal 8. Difference and Inclusion: Reframing Reasonable AccommodationVrinda Narain 9. Freeing Inherent Aboriginal Rights from the PastDavid Milward 10. False Western Universalism in Constitutionalism? The 1867 Canadian Constitution and the Legacy of the Residential SchoolsSujith Xavier 11. The Unstable Scope of Constitutionalized Property Rights in Canada: Public, Indigenous, and PrivateDwight Newman 12. A Role for Human Dignity under the Canadian Charter of Rights and FreedomsEmily Kidd White 13. Is the Permanent Campaign the End of the Egalitarian Model for Elections?Michael Pal 14. Immutability, Immigration Status, and the Limits of Equality ProtectionEfrat Arbel and Eileen Myrdahl ContributorsIndex

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