Pierre Elliot-Trudeau's phony Charter - The biggest Conditional Offer Never Read by regular Canadians

 I agree with author on what The Problem is/has been and wrote him to tell him I have been working on finding The ideal Solution (one requiring the least modification of existing laws, traditions and conventions PLUS not require a Constitutional amendment) for years.

Indeed this author has pointed out the flaws about the Charter (section 1 makes the Courts supreme(not Parliament) and section 33 makes all the "rights and freedoms" conditional, that no one seems to care about or kick up a stink about. 

Never mind the overflow / confusion from TV movies about the huge differences between our system and the USA's Second version of a republican Constitution.

We had more rights under Br common law BEFORE the Charter. 

PET purposely misled the public. And everybody else blindly followed (just like w KOVID-Kraziness now) 

The author writes about the SARS mess and Govt excesses and power grabs.

But proposes no solutions because the courts and parliament and the police are useless.

But the Executive, the Crown and the Sovereign are above the mess. But fully empowered to fix it.

The only problem is a finding an acceptable-to-the-public mandate for the Executive to over-rule the Legislature. 

The easy aspect in Canada is that the Executive already has that power. The Constitution /BNA 1867 says so.

No higher law in the land.

So we must work on presenting The problem and The solution and The mandate - a Deemed Disposition of HM the Queen's Assets and Authority to the resident, at paying citizens of Canada

No one has discovered this?!? Because it is not taught. 

And because the power structure had no interest in giving away their powers .

But with SARS Covid they've abused the powers, shown WHY the Legislative power was originally (and still)reined-in by three layers of checks and balances above it.

So much writing 

I know at least three things about Canada's sovereignty & history, its arrested-in-development political evolution and the BNA /Constitution and its predecessors than this author does 

I have been trying to explain it to for years - even ran in 2006 as an independent to explain it. 

But no one cared what some real estate agent from Toronto was saying "that nobody had ever heard before"

Maybe this is a better time for people to "hear" and maybe we can find a better front man 

Rce

Robert Ede,

Direct - 416-819-7333

Well Said.  Taken from Bruce Pardy's website rightsprobe.org

NJ 

The legal ground is shifting.

In the 21st century, citizens of Western countries have more freedom than most of the rest of the world at most other times in history. But the legal ground is shifting. Individual autonomy – the crowning achievement of Western legal systems – is now at risk. The law is moving from individualist to collectivist; from blind justice to social justice; from equality of treatment to equality of outcome; from capitalist to statist; from economic competition to political conformity; and from neutral adjudication to judicial activism. The managerial state has become ubiquitous.

Progressive illiberal impulses fuel the regulation of individual behavior and speech. In Canada, courts and academics are transforming the Charter of Rights and Freedoms from a roster of individual rights into a social justice charter that legitimizes curbing civil liberties in the name of common good. Public institutions exercise discretionary authority to pursue social ends they deem desirable. These trends have accelerated in the Covid period of the past 18 months. In this new era, Canadians have become acutely less free, and the law has not protected them.

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Bruce Pardy
Executive Director

https://www.rightsprobe.org/read/during-covid-the-charter-has-been-useless

During COVID, The Charter Has Been Useless — Rights Probe COVID has exposed the Charter’s shortcomings and given Canadians cause to reassess their assumptions about how the law works. Ten days ago the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench was the latest court to rebuff a constitutional challenge to COVID restrictions on civil liberties. Chief Justice Glenn Joy www.rightsprobe.org