Dwight Newman on defining judicial activism

From the floor of the Manning Networking Conference, a conversation inspired by recent decisions of the Supreme Court

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Dwight Newman is a law professor at the University of Saskatchewan and the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Rights in Constitutional and International Law.

Maclean’s associate editor Aaron Wherry talks to him about the idea of judicial activism and the discussion that has been revived by recent decisions of the Supreme Court.

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