Judicial Activism Anand Analysis

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Article Selected: "The Truth about Canadian Judicial Activism"

To begin the article, Anand states that the topic of judicial activism over the years has generated great debate. In recent years, many have denied that there is such a thing called judicial activism, for example retired Supreme Court Justice John Minister John Mayor once said: “there is no such thing as judicial activism in Canada”. As a result, many feel that the debate has allowed excessive judicial defense, resulting in legislatures and officials to act without any inspection of state actions involving vulnerable minorities. Anand moves on to provide a basic summary of the definition of what judicial activism is, and defines it as “the tendancy for judges to make, as opposed to
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In fact, it was present even before the enactment of the Charter. To conclude, Anand believes that if the public should stop scrutinizing the work of public institutions, many of these intuitions would fail, in which the failure of these companies should be the real concern for Canadians.

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