If the legal question at issue relates to matters of constitutional or privacy law, however, decisions of United States courts are more likely to be utilized by Canadian lawyers because there is a much greater body of jurisprudence in U. S. law than English law in these areas.

In October 2010, Galloway said he would sue the Canadian Government for breaching his privacy rights and branding him a terrorist.

In response to these privacy and security claims, the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, the Canadian Police Association, and the Canadian Association of Police Boards released a joint statement stating that ," The CFP's national database has never been breached by hackers.

The Canadian Women's Health Network said that collecting this information was unnecessary and a violation of privacy.

The position of the Canadian Psychiatric Association itself, stated in The Confidentiality of Psychiatric Records and the Patient's Right to Privacy ( 2000-21S ), and holds that " in recent years, serious incursions have been made by governments, powerful commercial interests, law enforcement agencies, and the courts on the rights of persons to their privacy.

The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act ( abbreviated PIPEDA or PIPED Act ) is a Canadian law relating to data privacy.

The act was also intended to reassure the European Union that the Canadian privacy law was adequate to protect the personal information of European citizens.

* The Canadian Privacy Law Blog: A regularly updated blog on issues related to privacy law and PIPEDA written by David T. S.

Fraser, a Canadian privacy lawyer.

* promoting awareness and understanding of privacy issues by the Canadian public.

** Canadian privacy law

Madeleine Plamondon ( born September 21, 1931 ) is a retired Canadian Senator and consumer advocate specializing in financial services, privacy, and rights of the elderly.

Canadian scholar Richard Toporoski theorised in 1998 that " if, let us say, an alteration were to be made in the United Kingdom to the Act of Settlement 1701, providing for the succession of the Crown ... t is my opinion that the domestic constitutional law of Australia or Papua New Guinea, for example, would provide for the succession in those countries of the same person who became Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

In Canada, where the Act of Settlement is now a part of Canadian constitutional law, Tony O ' Donohue, a Canadian civic politician, took issue with the provisions that exclude Roman Catholics from the throne, and which make the monarch of Canada the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, requiring him or her to be an Anglican.

In terms of ultra vires actions in the broad sense, a reviewing court may set aside an administrative decision if it is unreasonable ( under Canadian law, following the rejection of the " Patently Unreasonable " standard by the Supreme Court in Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick ), Wednesbury unreasonable ( under British law ), or arbitrary and capricious ( under U. S. Administrative Procedure Act and New York State law ).

Sometimes this is referred to as " hornbook law " meaning treatise or textbook, often relied upon as authoritative, competent, and generally accepted in the field of Canadian law.

295 ), the Canada Supreme Court opined that the 1906 Lord's Day Act that required most places to be closed on Sunday did not have a legitimate secular purpose, and was an unconstitutional attempt to establish a religious-based closing law in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The Canadian colonies received the common law and English statutes under Blackstone's principles for the establishment of the legal system of a new colony.

In five of the Canadian provinces, English law was received automatically, under the principle of a settled colony inheriting English law.

English law had already been received in the various Canadian provinces and territories by legislation and judicial decisions over the previous two centuries.

Canadian federal statutes must use the terminology of both the common law and civil law for those matters ; this is referred to as legislative bijuralism.

When sold in another country, Canadian whisky is typically also required to conform to the local product requirements that apply to whisky in general when sold in that country, which may in some aspects involve stricter standards than the Canadian law.

Although many Canadian whiskies are labelled as " rye whisky ", the use of rye grain is not dictated by law, and whisky products of all grain types are often generically referred to as ( and may legally be labelled as ) " rye whisky " in Canada.

Under Canadian law, the term " Canadian rye whisky " is simply synonymous with " Canadian whisky ", and the primary mash ingredient in most Canadian whisky is corn.

However, U. S. law permits " blended " whisky to contain up to 80 % un-aged grain neutral spirits ( with an age statement on the label that refers only to the " straight " part of the blend ), while Canadian law requires that all of the spirits in a Canadian whisky be aged for at least three years.

WBAI is on the right track: in the sound medium there has been excessive emphasis on music and news and there could and should be a place for theatre, as the Canadian and British Broadcasting Corporations continue to demonstrate.

A term similar to this is the Canadian motto A Mari Usque Ad Mare (" From sea to sea.

The Canadian Aboriginal syllabics are also an abugida rather than a syllabary as their name would imply, since each glyph stands for a consonant which is modified by rotation to represent the following vowel.

Canadian syllabics differ from other abugidas in that the vowel is indicated by rotation of the consonantal symbol, with each vowel having a consistent orientation.

Abugidas were long considered to be syllabaries or intermediate between syllabaries and alphabets, and the term " syllabics " is retained in the name of Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics.

* 1924 – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.

The type species, A. sarcophagus, was apparently restricted in range to the modern-day Canadian province of Alberta, after which the genus is named.

* 2003 – The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo ( now called Behchoko ).

* 1955 – The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.

Alberta is landlocked, and separated by a series of mountain ranges from the nearest outlets to the Pacific Ocean, and by the Canadian Shield from ports on the Lakehead or Hudson Bay.

A 2003 study by TD Bank Financial Group found the corridor is the only Canadian urban centre to amass a U. S. level of wealth while maintaining a Canadian-style quality of life, offering universal health care benefits.

Nonetheless Canadian English also features many British English items and is often described as a unique blend of the two larger varieties alongside several distinctive Canadianisms.

: The American style is used by most American newspapers, publishing houses and style guides in the United States and Canada ( including the Modern Language Association's MLA Style Manual, the American Psychological Association's APA Publication Manual, the University of Chicago's The Chicago Manual of Style, the American Institute of Physics's AIP Style Manual, the American Medical Association's AMA Manual of Style, the American Political Science Association's APSA Style Manual, the Associated Press ' The AP Guide to Punctuation and the Canadian Public Works ' The Canadian Style ).

In 2002, O ' Donohue launched a court action that argued the Act of Settlement violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but the case was dismissed by the court, which found that, as the Act of Settlement is part of the Canadian constitution, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not have supremacy over it.

* Champ is the name given to a reputed lake monster living in Lake Champlain, a natural freshwater lake in North America, partially situated across the U. S .- Canada border in the Canadian province of Quebec and partially situated across the Vermont-New York border.

It is the only Canadian university selected for inclusion in the Education and Academia category of the Computerworld Smithsonian Award.

The Annapolis Valley is a valley and region in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

* 1868 – Thomas D ' Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician.