Emmett Macfarlane is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo.

‘Constitutional Amendment in Canada provides interesting food for thought on the limits of constitutional growth through formal constitutional amendment.’- Peter Russell (Canadian Parliamentary Review vol 40:02:2017)

• AcknowledgmentIntroduction ‒ Striking a Balance: The Players and Procedures of Canada’s Constitutional Amending FormulaEmmett MacfarlanePart One: The Players1 Searching for an Amending Formula: The 115-year JourneyNadia Verrelli2 Uncovering the Wall Surrounding the Castle of the Constitution: Judicial Interpretation of Part V of the Constitution Act, 1982Adam Dodek3 The Federal Principle: Constitutional Amendment and Intergovernmental RelationsCarissima Mathen4 Part II and Part V: Aboriginal Peoples and Constitutional AmendmentChrista ScholtzPart Two: The Procedures5 Constitutional Amendment by LegislationWarren J. Newman6 U2: Unanimity vs. Unilateralism in Canada’s Politics of Constitutional AmendmentRainer Knopff7 Understanding the Section 43 Bilateral Amending FormulaDwight Newman8 The Possibilities and Limits of Provincial Constitution-Making Power: The Case of QuebecEmmanuelle Richez9 The End of Informal Constitutional Change in Canada?Dennis Baker and Mark D. JarvisPart Three: The Issues10 DIY 101: The Constitutional Entrenchment of the Supreme Court of CanadaErin Crandall11 The Uncertain Future of Senate ReformEmmett Macfarlane12 The Crown and Constitutional Amendment after the Senate and Supreme Court ReferencesPhilippe Lagassé and Patrick Baud13 "The Most Radical Amendment of All": The Power to Secede and the Secession ReferenceKate PuddisterConclusion: The Future of Canadian Constitutional AmendmentEmmett MacfarlaneAppendix: Text of Part V of the Constitution Act, 1982Selected BibliographyContributorsIndex

Emmett Macfarlane is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo.

‘Constitutional Amendment in Canada provides interesting food for thought on the limits of constitutional growth through formal constitutional amendment.’- Peter Russell (Canadian Parliamentary Review vol 40:02:2017)

• AcknowledgmentIntroduction ‒ Striking a Balance: The Players and Procedures of Canada’s Constitutional Amending FormulaEmmett MacfarlanePart One: The Players1 Searching for an Amending Formula: The 115-year JourneyNadia Verrelli2 Uncovering the Wall Surrounding the Castle of the Constitution: Judicial Interpretation of Part V of the Constitution Act, 1982Adam Dodek3 The Federal Principle: Constitutional Amendment and Intergovernmental RelationsCarissima Mathen4 Part II and Part V: Aboriginal Peoples and Constitutional AmendmentChrista ScholtzPart Two: The Procedures5 Constitutional Amendment by LegislationWarren J. Newman6 U2: Unanimity vs. Unilateralism in Canada’s Politics of Constitutional AmendmentRainer Knopff7 Understanding the Section 43 Bilateral Amending FormulaDwight Newman8 The Possibilities and Limits of Provincial Constitution-Making Power: The Case of QuebecEmmanuelle Richez9 The End of Informal Constitutional Change in Canada?Dennis Baker and Mark D. JarvisPart Three: The Issues10 DIY 101: The Constitutional Entrenchment of the Supreme Court of CanadaErin Crandall11 The Uncertain Future of Senate ReformEmmett Macfarlane12 The Crown and Constitutional Amendment after the Senate and Supreme Court ReferencesPhilippe Lagassé and Patrick Baud13 "The Most Radical Amendment of All": The Power to Secede and the Secession ReferenceKate PuddisterConclusion: The Future of Canadian Constitutional AmendmentEmmett MacfarlaneAppendix: Text of Part V of the Constitution Act, 1982Selected BibliographyContributorsIndex

Emmett Macfarlane is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo.

‘Constitutional Amendment in Canada provides interesting food for thought on the limits of constitutional growth through formal constitutional amendment.’- Peter Russell (Canadian Parliamentary Review vol 40:02:2017)

• AcknowledgmentIntroduction ‒ Striking a Balance: The Players and Procedures of Canada’s Constitutional Amending FormulaEmmett MacfarlanePart One: The Players1 Searching for an Amending Formula: The 115-year JourneyNadia Verrelli2 Uncovering the Wall Surrounding the Castle of the Constitution: Judicial Interpretation of Part V of the Constitution Act, 1982Adam Dodek3 The Federal Principle: Constitutional Amendment and Intergovernmental RelationsCarissima Mathen4 Part II and Part V: Aboriginal Peoples and Constitutional AmendmentChrista ScholtzPart Two: The Procedures5 Constitutional Amendment by LegislationWarren J. Newman6 U2: Unanimity vs. Unilateralism in Canada’s Politics of Constitutional AmendmentRainer Knopff7 Understanding the Section 43 Bilateral Amending FormulaDwight Newman8 The Possibilities and Limits of Provincial Constitution-Making Power: The Case of QuebecEmmanuelle Richez9 The End of Informal Constitutional Change in Canada?Dennis Baker and Mark D. JarvisPart Three: The Issues10 DIY 101: The Constitutional Entrenchment of the Supreme Court of CanadaErin Crandall11 The Uncertain Future of Senate ReformEmmett Macfarlane12 The Crown and Constitutional Amendment after the Senate and Supreme Court ReferencesPhilippe Lagassé and Patrick Baud13 "The Most Radical Amendment of All": The Power to Secede and the Secession ReferenceKate PuddisterConclusion: The Future of Canadian Constitutional AmendmentEmmett MacfarlaneAppendix: Text of Part V of the Constitution Act, 1982Selected BibliographyContributorsIndex