Canada's Constitution
Submitted by nater_ater on December 17, 2007
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In 1982 Canada’s Constitution was repatriated with one major change, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was entrenched in the Constitution making it, for all intent and purposes, the true law of Canada. This change to the Constitution has had some far larger repercussions in Canadian judicial system than PM Pierre Trudeau ever could have imagined when he signed the repatriation. With the Charter being the set of rules that no law may contradict, the Supreme Court is able to strike down any law which they feel is infracting upon the Chartered rights of an individual or group. The abilities of the Supreme Court make it all powerful, but with this power come many problems and controversies which must be addressed by both the courts, and the government immediately. While at the moment it is generally frowned upon for someone to question the Supreme Court’s power, if there is no solution...