In April the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its disappointing decision on the so-called “Free the Beer” case. Those of you who know my militant views on the importance of tearing down the barriers between Canadians will not be surprised to learn that this unleashed a torrent of scorching criticism of the Court and some ideas about next steps, urgung Ottawa yet again to shoulder its constitutional, economic and moral duty to act to honour Canadians’ economic rights.
On 21 April 2018, in the immediate aftermath of the decision, I published an op-ed in the main dailies in New Brunswick, analysing the SCC’s failure to honour the promise of Confederation.
I followed that on 30 April 2018 with a short video for MLI on the Comeau case.
Finally, on 16 May 2018, Sean Speer and I wrote a piece for Inside Policy laying out the argument that the SCC clearly doesn’t understand, or doesn’t care, about the economic rights of Canadians and why it now falls to Ottawa to legislate an Economic Charter of Rights.
