The Supreme Court Act is an Act passed by the Parliament of Canada establishes the Supreme Court of Canada. It was originally passed in1875 as the Supreme and Exchequer Courts Act. As the Court is defined in a regular statute, in theory, the Court could be abolished by an act of the federal government. However, in practice, the Court is so well entrenched into the fabric of the government that jurists see the abolition of the Court to be unlikely. The Parliament of Canada (French: Parlement du Canada) is Canadas legislative branch, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario. ... 1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
section 53
Section 53 give the government the ability to submit Reference questions. A Reference Question in Canada is a submission by the federal or a provincial government to the Supreme Court of Canada or the provinces respective Court of Appeal in which the submitting government would like the court to answer a legal question regarding the Constitution Acts, the constitutionality of...
In Reference re Secession of Quebec, the Supreme Court examined the applicability of section 53. The Quebec government argued that the right to succeed was an invalid basis for a reference question, but the Court disagreed. Reference re Secession of Quebec [1998] 2 S.C.R. 217 was an opinion of the Supreme Court of Canada regarding the legality, under both Canadian and international law, of a unilateral secession of Quebec from Canada. ...
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