Harper v Canada (AG)

Harper v Canada (AG)
Supreme Court of Canada
Hearing: 10 February 2004 Judgment: 18 May 2004
Full case name	Attorney General of Canada v Stephen Joseph Harper
Citations	[2004] 1 S.C.R. 827; 2004 SCC 33 (CanLII); (2004), 239 D.L.R. (4th) 193; [2004] 8 W.W.R. 1; (2004), 119 C.R.R. (2d) 84; (2004), 27 Alta. L.R. (4th) 1
Docket No.	29618 [1]
Prior history	Judgment for the respondent in the Court of Appeal for Alberta.
Ruling	Spending limits in the Canada Elections Act are constitutional.
Court membership
Chief Justice: Beverley McLachlin Puisne Justices: Frank Iacobucci, John C. Major, Michel Bastarache, Ian Binnie, Louise Arbour, Louis LeBel, Marie Deschamps, Morris Fish
Reasons given
Majority	Bastarache J., joined by Iacobucci, Arbour, LeBel, Deschamps, and Fish JJ.
Concur/dissent	McLachlin C.J. and Major J., joined by Binnie J. (in parts)

Harper v Canada (AG), [2004] 1 S.C.R. 827, 2004 SCC 33, is a leading decision of the Supreme Court of Canada wherein the Court ruled that Canada Elections Act's spending limits on third party election advertising did violate section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms but was justified under Section One of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.