Robert Hamilton
@roberthamilton.bsky.social
Associate Prof at UCalgary Faculty of Law. Research & teach Indigenous rights, property law, constitutional law, legal theory.
True! And maybe all the fear-mongering and misinformation pols and commentators have offered up has contributed to that public sentiment?
October 31, 2025 at 10:56 PM
True! And maybe all the fear-mongering and misinformation pols and commentators have offered up has contributed to that public sentiment?
"While the negotiators would have to contemplate the possibility of secession, there would be no absolute legal entitlement to it and no assumption that an agreement reconciling all relevant rights and obligations would actually be reached." (para 97)
May 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
"While the negotiators would have to contemplate the possibility of secession, there would be no absolute legal entitlement to it and no assumption that an agreement reconciling all relevant rights and obligations would actually be reached." (para 97)
"...Such a foregone conclusion would actually undermine the obligation to negotiate and render it hollow." (para 91)
May 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
"...Such a foregone conclusion would actually undermine the obligation to negotiate and render it hollow." (para 91)
"No negotiations could be effective if their ultimate outcome, secession, is cast as an absolute legal entitlement based upon an obligation to give effect to that act of secession in the Constitution. ...
May 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
"No negotiations could be effective if their ultimate outcome, secession, is cast as an absolute legal entitlement based upon an obligation to give effect to that act of secession in the Constitution. ...
Such a vote would impose a duty to negotiate, yes, but not with separation already a settled outcome:
May 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Such a vote would impose a duty to negotiate, yes, but not with separation already a settled outcome: