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(LifeSiteNews) – The last surviving architect of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has sounded the alarm at the state of democracy in Canada in an interview released earlier this month. Brian Peckford is the former premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, and was part of the group of lawmakers and politicians who formulated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The Charter, as it is commonly called, is a bill of rights entrenched in the Constitution of Canada, which formed the first part of the Constitution Act of 1982. The intent of the Charter is to guarantee certain fundamental rights to Canadians. It was designed to unite Canadians around a certain set of values that best embody the Canadian way of life. It was signed into law by Queen Elizabeth II.
The forerunner to the Charter was the Canadian Bill of Rights, which was not a constitutional document, but rather a federal statute. A federal statute could be amended by the normative legislative process and does not have the same weight regarding direct application to provincial laws. The aim of
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