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Rainer Knopff

Rainer Knopff

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Aug 6, 2026

17:56
at the time,
17:58
Canadian federalism jurisprudence on the Supreme Court of Canada was more active than it was in the United States at that time.
18:06
And we argued that that's true with the charter revolution.
18:12
Under the Bill of Rights, nobody was going to court very much because you couldn't expect anything.
18:20
But because of the increase in judicial discretion and legal uncertainty, groups are gonna go to court, including groups that traditionally have lost a lot of cases because they can occasionally win one or two or three.
18:42
And we've seen that from the CCF, for example, it joyfully, celebrates its victories when they happen.
18:51
They don't happen all that often, but they do happen.

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31:03
You can guess what my answer is.

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