Episode 09 : Search and Seizure Protections with Professor François Tanguay-Renaud

Your home is your castle, but what about your phone, your text messages, your IP address? Professor François Tanguay-Renaud of Osgoode Hall Law School joins Shaping Canada to explore Hunter v. Southam (1984), the case that established Canada's warrant requirement and made privacy the cornerstone of Section 8 of the Charter. From the 1982 search of an Edmonton newspaper's offices to the 2024 IP-address ruling in Bykovets, this episode traces how search and seizure law has evolved, and asks whether privacy alone can carry the constitutional weight we've placed on it. This project has been made possible by the Government of Canada.