2021
DOI: 10.7202/1079767ar
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L’émergence inattendue de la dualité institutionnelle à la Cour suprême du Canada depuis Pepin-Robarts*

Abstract: Le rapport de la commission Pepin-Robarts recommandait des réformes majeures à la Cour suprême du Canada, institution « par excellence » selon les commissaires pour consacrer la dualité canadienne : augmentation du nombre de juges de neuf à onze dont cinq seraient québécois, création d’une chambre exclusivement civiliste, ratification des nominations par un nouveau conseil de la fédération, etc. L’ampleur des changements recommandés était sans précédent dans l’histoire constitutionnelle canadienne. Elles demeu… Show more

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“…The reason is fourfold. First, until Gérard La Forest was appointed in 1985, there seems to have been an implicit linguistic divide on the Court (Bédard-Rubin 2021a). The three Quebec justices were bilingual and the justices from the other provinces were, most of the time, unilingual.…”
Section: Data Methodology and Variablesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The reason is fourfold. First, until Gérard La Forest was appointed in 1985, there seems to have been an implicit linguistic divide on the Court (Bédard-Rubin 2021a). The three Quebec justices were bilingual and the justices from the other provinces were, most of the time, unilingual.…”
Section: Data Methodology and Variablesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Since the mid-2000s, judicial bilingualism has become increasingly contentious. Opposition members of parliament (MPs) have fueled the controversy by tabling bills to amend either the Official Languages Act 1 (OLA) or the Supreme Court Act 2 (SCA) (for a summary, see Jimenez-Salcedo 2020 and Bédard-Rubin 2021a). Amending the former, which the Liberals promised to do in their comprehensive reform of the OLA, would require the Supreme Court to ensure justices were functional in the official language chosen by the parties, like all other federal courts.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%