Not quite supreme: the courts and coordinate constitutional interpretation

Abstract

Introduction : sharing interpretive power -- Judicial supremacy, dialogue theory, and coordinate interpretation -- Explaining the hostility to coordinate interpretation -- The separation of powers in Canada : partial agency or watertight compartments? -- The separation of powers in Canada : 'fusion' or 'ambivalence' -- The ambivalent judicial role in the separation of powers -- Legal pluralism after the Supreme Court decides -- Judicial remedies and the separation of power -- Conclusion : some final words about the 'final say'