A decision from the Quebec Superior Court came down yesterday which will have grave constitutional implications for Canada, yet few people actually know or understand it. The case challenged the royal succession law that the previous government passed as part of the series of reforms passed in all of the realms that share Queen Elizabeth II as their respective monarch, and by most reckonings, the Canadian law was a complete sham, simply assenting to UK legislation, in essence subordinating the Canadian Crown to a subset of the UK crown, despite the fact that they became separate entities after the Statute of Westminster in 1931. The Quebec Superior Court, however, sided with the Department of Justice, that the monarch was the same per the preamble of the constitution as opposed to a separate legal entity, and essentially reducing Canada back to a subordinate British colony, all because the Harper government didn’t want to go through the necessary steps of doing a proper constitutional amendment to change the Office of the Queen to match the aims of reform. So long, Queen of Canada. We hardly knew you.

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Good reads:

• There has been some confusion around the ministers’ comments on the number of cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women that there could be.
• Thomas Mulcair is shocked – shocked! – that the Liberals aren’t leaping at rebuilding the Canadian Wheat Board.
• The Liberals may wind up backing some of the NDP proposals for limiting in camera committee meetings.
• Bill Morneau hopes to have a deal with the provinces on enhancing the CPP within the calendar year. The Conservatives’ voluntary CPP plan found few fans.
• The government is bringing in an investment banker to help design the planned Infrastructure Bank.
• Retired Senator Roméo Dallaire says that a strategy to deal with child soldiers is needed to help defeat ISIS.
• The Commons heritage committee wants to study media concentration and the crisis in print journalism.
• It sounds like negotiators of the Canada-EU trade deal are still tinkering with the language around the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism.
• Former Supreme Court of Canada justices sound off about the death of Antonin Scalia and his doctrine of originalism, while Adam Dodek notes how Scalia inadvertently helped to popularise Canada’s constitutional and Supreme Court models in the world.
• Jennifer Robson looks at the expanded student summer jobs funding, and the need for better data for evidence-based policy.
• Mike Moffatt explains why the Express Entry immigration system is failing young international graduates and holding back our economic growth.
• My Loonie Politics column looks at Mulcair’s future as NDP leader.

Odds and ends:

Kevin O’Leary’s pipeline advocacy could be helping his eponymous mutual fund companies.

The republican movement in this country continues to fail, 180 years and counting.