I’m pleased to announce the publication of a new edited book on The Crown and Parliament.
The book was inspired by a May 2014 conference on the subject held by the Canadian Study of Parliament Group.
The volume was edited by me and Michel Bédard, the President of the Canadian Study of Parliament Group.
The book features a foreword by the Governor General, His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston.
It can be purchased here.
The Crown and Parliament covers a number of subjects, including parliamentary procedures that involve the Crown, the relationship between Parliament and prerogative power, vice-regal appointments, the Crown and constitutional amendment in Canada, as well as four chapters on Canada’s Succession to the Throne Act, 2013.
Here is the table of contents:
Introduction (français)
Michel Bédard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Introduction (English)
Michel Bédard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chapitre 1
L’évolution de la relation entre la couronne
et le parlement anglais
André Émond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Chapter 2
Parliament and the Crown: A Canadian Perspective
David E. Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Chapter 3
The Legislative Process and Judicial Review:
Royal Functions and their Justiciability
John Mark Keyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Chapter 4
The Role of the Crown-in- Parliament: A Matter of Form
and Substance
Charles Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Chapter 5
The Royal Recommendation
Rob Walsh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Chapter 6
The ”˜Convention’ to Consult Parliament on Decisions to
Deploy the Military: a Political Mirage?
Alexander Bolt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Chapter 7
Recovering the Royal Prerogative
Paul Benoit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Chapter 8
The Crown and Constitutional Amendment in Canada
Philippe Lagassé & Patrick Baud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Chapter 9
Subtle yet significant innovations: The Advisory
Committee on Vice- Regal Appointments and the
Secretary’s new Royal powers
Christopher McCreery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Chapter 10
Succession to the Throne and the Architecture
of the Constitution of Canada
Mark D. Walters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Chapitre 11
La monarchie constitutionnelle au Canada :
une institution stable, complexe et souple
L’honorable Serge Joyal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Chapter 12
Succession to the Crown of Canada
Anne Twomey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Chapitre 13
L’abdication du roi Édouard VIII en 1936 : « autopsie »
d’une modifi cation de la Constitution canadienne
Julien Fournier, Patrick Taillon, Geneviève Motard et
André Binette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Conclusion (français)
Philippe Lagassé . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
Conclusion (English)
Philippe Lagassé . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
