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Claim Game

The high stakes of fraudulent identity

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

The Canadian Conversation

A Polish journalist’s perspective on residential schools

Joseph E. Magnet

Joseph Eliot Magnet, FRSC, is a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa. He is the author or editor of 18 books on constitutional law, most recently The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms after Twenty-Five Years (Butterworths, 2009). He is counsel to governments, corporations, First Nations and minority groups.

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A New Vision

Quebec’s most important federalist voice describes the province’s future within Canada May 2011
Benoît Pelletier is the most important voice for the federalist idea in Quebec today. He recently held three senior Quebec Cabinet portfolios; he is a potential successor to Liberal premier Jean Charest or Liberal Opposition leader Michael Ignatieff. Pelletier writes from his current position as a constitutional law professor who enjoys large followings in the broader Quebec public and the…