Canadian health consumers have increasingly relied on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to demand certain therapies and reasonably timely access to care. Organizing these cases into a 5-part typology, we examine how a rights-based discourse affects allocation of health care resources. First,...

The sun is setting on the civil rights revolution. Lived experience will no longer provide the historical context with which to interpret the constitutional contributions of the fading past. Only a series of careful, historically nuanced, studies will permit the profession to thoughtfully define...

When the Human Rights Act was introduced in 1998, it was taken for granted that the project of bringing rights home simply entailed incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights. It is only now, over a decade later, that attention is being paid to the content of those rights....