The Charter in Administrative Decision-Making: Defending the Duty to Take Charter Values (or Purposes) Into Account

On the evergreen topic of Charter values, I have a new paper on SSRN (forthcoming in a special edition of the Ottawa Law Review on language rights), entitled “The Charter in Administrative Decision-Making: Defending the Duty to Take Charter Values (or Purposes) into Account“:

The Supreme Court of Canada recently reaffirmed that administrative decision-makers are obliged to consider Charter values. I will describe the duty, offer critical reflections on some aspects of current doctrine and develop a detailed defence of the duty by explaining how the Court’s reasoning is anchored in several well-established features of Canadian public law and offering a normative argument in support of the duty.

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