Cover

Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Avant-propos

Preface

Contributors

Introduction: The Enduring Canadian Crown

Part 1. Canadian Encounters with the Crown

1. Royalty at Rideau Hall: Lord Lorne, Princess Louise, and the Emergence of the Canadian Crown

2. La Couronne au Québec : de credo rassurant à bouc émissaire commode

3. Commentaire : la Couronne au Québec, de credo rassurant à bouc émissaire commode

4. The Crown and the Media

5. Educating Canadians on the Crown – A Diamond Jubilee Challenge

Part 2. Crown and Constitution

6. The Crown in Canada Today: How Dignified? How Efficient?

7. Commentary: “Inefficient Efficiency”: The Use of Vice-Regal Reserve Powers

8. The Law of Succession and the Canadian Crown

9. A Case for the Republican Option

Part 3. The Crown in Practice

10. The Provincial Crown: The Lieutenant Governor’s Expanding Role

11. The Speech from the Throne and the Dignity of the Crown

12. Cabinet Manuals and the Crown

13. Confidant and Chief of Staff: The Governor’s Secretary

14. Crown Prerogative Decisions to Deploy the Canadian Forces Internationally: A Fitting Mechanism for a Liberal Democracy

Part 4. First Nations and the Crown

15. “Recollecting Sovereignty”: First Nations–Crown Alliance and the Legacy of the War of 1812

16. The Aboriginal Peoples and the Crown

Conclusion: The Contentious Canadian Crown

General Bibliography on the Crown in Canada

Court Rulings