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Originally posted by Bleeding Red@Dec 9 2004, 11:39 AM
First - this is not a ruling - it's advice and opinion given to the government at the Librals request.
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So you're proposing that the Supreme Court of Canada would give an "opinion" on an issue in a reference, and then rule in the opposite direction just because someone brought it in a different form?
Sorry, but you're out to lunch.
In the early '80's the Trudeau government was prevented from unilaterally ammending the Constitution without provincial consent by a reference to the Supreme Court. You can bet that if the court's ruling was "just advice" to the government, Trudeau wouldn't have gone back and made the deals with the provinces