1. Gosselin v Quebec (Attorney General), 2002 SCC 84. The role of “common sense” in the judgments in Chaoulli v Quebec (Attorney General), 2005 SCC 35, and Sauvé v Canada (Chief Electoral Officer), 2002 SCC 68 (which, like Gosselin, were constitutional cases involving issues of class, poverty, and marginalization), is analyzed and discussed in Chapters 2–4 with reference to Gramsci, Reid, and Arendt. These cases and theorists, together with Nedelsky’s work, are the principal subjects of Cochran’s analysis.
2. This is the reviewer’s restatement of the author’s expectations. The author’s aspirations are best captured in her own words in the conclusion (Chapter 5).