Am I the only Briton who feels dread at the prospect of a bank holiday weekend filled with the media's wall to wall coverage of the Royal Jubilee? God, how I wish Britain had an elected head of state and fully elected Houses of Parliament. A written constitution wouldn't go amiss either.
Be careful what you ask for. The Canadian constitution that was rewritten in the 1980s undermines many of the right such as free speech that the US Constitution guarantees.
Yup. While the Charter of Rights is wonderful, leaving it up to the courts to enforce it has made Canada even more P.C than it should have been. In such circumstances one pines for the old days when Parliament had the last word on the state of the law.