Introduction

1 Should We Cheer? Contested Constitutionalism and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms / James B. Kelly and Christopher P. Manfredi

Part 1: Governance and Institutions

2 Legalise This: The Chartering of Canadian Politics / Andrew Petter

3 Rationalizing Judicial Power: The Mischief of Dialogue Theory / Grant Huscroft

4 Courting Controversy: Strategic Judicial Decision Making / Rainer Knopff, Dennis Baker, and Sylvia LeRoy

5 Legislative Activism and Parliamentary Bills of Rights: Institutional Lessons for Canada / James B. Kelly

6 Compromise and the Notwithstanding Clause: Why the Dominant Narrative Distorts Our Understanding / Janet L. Hiebert

Part 2: Policy Making and the Courts

7 Judicializing Health Policy: Unexpected Lessons and an Inconvenient Truth / Christopher P. Manfredi and Antonia Maioni

8 National Security and the Charter / Kent Roach

9 Canadian Language Rights: Liberties, Claims, and the National Conversation / Graham Fraser

10 Explaining the Impact of Legal Mobilization and Judicial Decisions: Official Minority Language Education Rights outside Quebec / Troy Riddell

11 Reference re Same-Sex Marriage: Making Sense of the Government’s Litigation Strategy / Matthew Hennigar

Part 3: Citizenship and Identity

12 Bills of Rights as Instruments of Nation Building in Multinational States: The Canadian Charter and Quebec Nationalism / Sujit Choudhry

13 The Internal Exile of Quebecers in the Canada of the Charter / Guy Laforest

14 The Road Not Taken: Aboriginal Rights after the Re-Imagining of the Canadian Constitutional Order / Kiera L. Ladner and Michael McCrossan