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You win your bet. I confess I know nothing about Canada's Charter.

So Frum is still in Washington, eh, though writing for a Canadian publication? AEI is a good think tank for free enterprisers.

As to the Supreme Court and the "Ninth Circus," the SCOTUS (with very few exceptions which don't apply here) has the prerogative to decide which cases from the federal circuit courts it wishes to review. In practice, the SCOTUS decides to review approximately one percent of cases in which the losing party in the lower court petitions the SCOTUS for certiorori. That is, if you lose a case in any of the circuit courts, chances are very much against you that the SCOTUS will allow you to even bother them with your grief and you're likely stuck with the circuit court's adverse decision. On the positive side, though, the SCOTUS has been reversing decisions by the Ninth Circus at significantly higher rate than those of other circuits.

"You win your bet."

Thanks for so readily conceding the point. Sometimes it's a tough case to make without (definitely not in a negative sense) referring to America as an 'imperial power' & then watching all Hell break loose.

Objectively, there's little reason for any American - unless for commercial, diplomatic or military cause or as a selected field of academic study - to possess in depth familiarity with any particular nation beyond their own borders.
In fact, for U.S. citizens a general knowledge of the world as a whole is doubtless preferable.

On the other hand, Canada likely leads the pack of limited exceptions based upon our geographic proximity, being America's largest trading partner, having a somewhat similar history & more-so-same culture & there being literally countless families with branches on both sides of the border as well as numerous additional friendly social ties.

So, probably the average Yank knows more about Canada than, say, he does about Peru but then, we've no reason to be on top of matters Peruvian either.
Not surprisingly many Kanuckistani FReepers have developed a real intolerance when it comes to often ill-informed Stateside pontifications with respect to Canada & related disparaging generalizations about ALL Canadians.
As example, I've never once heard a conservative up here tar the vast majority of decent Americans with the same brush as the vile Clintons but, when it comes to our similarly morally bankrupt Liberal Party gangsters ...

Getting back to David Frum, both his sister Linda Frum & wife Danielle Crittenden (sp?) also enjoy successful cross-border literary careers but without quite his level of renown.
BTW, if you didn't already know, David's late mother Barbara Frum is a bit of a Canadian icon for her years as a highly principled (although, albeit, generally left-of-center) journalist with the CBC while his father-in-law (Danille's long-time step-dad) is Peter Worthington: Korean War Vet, founding Editor of the Toronto Sun & still a well known conservative pundit in his own right.