Course Code: PLBA 2000
Academic Year: 2024-2025
This course examines the development of Canadian law and the Constitution, and how Canada's three founding nations have been (or have not been) accommodated: the Indigenous, the French, and the English. First Nations treaty rights are examined, French civil law in Quebec is discussed, the development of the common law in other provinces is considered, and the similarities and differences among them are reviewed. The distribution of legislative powers under the Constitution, the development of the Charter of Rights, the need for a Supreme Court of Canada, and the development of Human Rights in Canada, are examined in order to appreciate the development of legal rights of individuals and communities in Canada.