The Long Record

In 1929 the Privy Council overturned our own Supreme Court and wrote the sentence about a living tree that Canadian constitutional law has run on ever since. The five women who forced it were not saints, and both halves of that belong in the record.

In 1911 Laurier lost 48 seats and a government over a modest trade agreement with the United States. The voters asked a question about leverage that the economics could not answer, and it is the question back in front of us now.