Canada's Top Court Takes Up the Ontario Place Constitutional Challenge

The Supreme Court of Canada plans to hear arguments from a coalition challenging the constitutionality of legislation that smooths the way for major changes at Ontario Place, CBC reports. The Crown and Ontario's attorney general are urging the court to dismiss the case. The question is narrow but consequential: how far a single piece of legislation may go in clearing a path for one redevelopment, and whether the coalition's constitutional objection survives contact with the court at all. Note who is asking for the dismissal — not a rival developer or a municipal body, but the provincial government and the Crown, which tells you how much the province wants this decided in its favour rather than relitigated.