[quidnunc]

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It is thanks to this unamendable 1982 constitution, that the courts now rule Canada. It took them more than a decade to discover how much power Trudeau's Charter had given them, and taken away from Parliament; but they did finally figure it out, and are now driving an endless revolutionary agenda, from Canada's madrasas — our radical law schools. Some of us warned this would happen back in 1982. The cart of history rolled over us.

Yes, Canada is going to hell in a handcart. But not just any handcart. It is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, pulled by the ghost of Pierre Elliot Trudeau.

Canada, trying to be more European than the Europeans.

[MEG33]

David Warren is always a good read.This is a sad read,too.

[ml/nj]

It is thanks to this unamendable 1982 constitution, that the courts now rule Canada.

Don't feel bad. Us Yankees have had a Constitution by Court for years. Just today we we told by a majority of five to four, that if that majority discerned a "compelling interest" that the actual law doesn't really matter.

James Madison would be spinning in his grave, but he has been doing that for years and has doubtless grown weary.

ML/NJ

[goldstategop]

Uh huh. Trudeau hated the doctrine of parliamentary supremacy since it stood in the way of the enlightened elite. It had to go at all costs. This is his legacy, beyond the grave, to Canada.

[SuperVillain]

i especially like how Mr. Warren uses zero facts to prove his case. while, as an American, it is not my right to say how Canada should run itself, both countries do have a similar problem. both countries continue to be hijacked by those who wish to use the suppression of equal rights for gays as a springboard to eliminate the rights of not only all Americans, but eliminate America itself. it is the undeniable duty of any proud American to forever destroy such violent myths and - to borrow from Reagan - leave homophobia "on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people."