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The Envoy

Mark Carney has a plan

Bubble Weary in Trump's America

A dispatch from the early days of a divided nation

On Familiar Spirits

A senator warns against another witch hunt

Michael Bryant

Michael Bryant, a former attorney general of Ontario, is the executive director and general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

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Michael Bryant

Courting Disaster

How did the supreme law of the land lose its supremacy? March 2019
It seems fitting that I began writing this review — concerning judges, politicians, and policy — in a courtroom hearing about just that. With my forbidden laptop out of judicial sight, I typed away at Toronto’s Osgoode Hall, where the Ontario Divisional Court was hearing two days of arguments about the challenge by my employer, the Canadian Civil Liberties…