Coup d’État

These nine men aided and abetted a southern Rhodesian-style coup d’état on Canada by Pierre Elliott Trudeau in 1982.

6 MAY 1981:  The nine justices of the Supreme Court of Canada. Top row, left to right, Julien Chouinard, Willard Estey, William McIntyre and Antonio Lamer.  Front row, left to right, Robert George Brian Dickson (commonly known as Brian Dickson), Ronald Martland, Chief Justice Bora Laskin, Ronald Ritchie and Jean Beetz.  (CP)

Strayer Quotes

Perhaps one can venture the conclusion that the patriation scheme of that day could afford to be a bit weak on legal legitimacy because it was to be so richly endowed with political legitimacy.  This is, perhaps, a further illustration of the point I made earlier—that one can always cure a bit of legal anemia with a good dose of political legitimacy.

— Barry Lee Strayer, Patriation and Legitimacy of the Canadian Constitution, Cronkite Lecture No. 1 (1982), page 3-15

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Patriation and Legitimacy of the Canadian Constitution by Barry Lee Strayer.  Free ebook coming soon.


Patriation and Legitimacy of the Canadian Constitution by Barry Lee Strayer.  Free ebook coming soon.

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