David Hume’s is-ought problem is oft-forgotten in Canadian political and legal circles, and it bears some repetition. We often forget the value of deduction in an algorithmic age, for computers and the science from which they stem cause us to increasingly rely on inductive logic. In this age of induction, we formulate general rules based … Continue reading Dicey’s ghost walks free
The Court of Parliament: how we let legislators off the hook
Parliament has a legislative jurisdiction that can and should be put up against courts' jurisdiction in Charter of Rights disputes. The legislator is ultimately responsible for adjudicating disputes about societal problems. Courts have a limited jurisdiction in our adversarial system.