Paper's abstract

Amos & Elie Friedland, The Silent Citizen
Emergency legislations of all descriptions are increasingly commonplace in the world's liberal democracies. This article examines one case in which emergency law was flagrantly abused in Canada, the processes of which suggest not so much a single innocuous aberration, but rather a broader shift toward the use of such extra-legal procedures within the sphere of normal law.

Key Words : emergency law
t. 51, 2008 : p. 267-278

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