COMM 2501 Lecture Notes - Freedom Of Movement, The Young Offenders, Publication Ban
6 May 2012
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We had freedom of expression before the charter of rights, but it wasn"t protected constitutionally. The supremacy of parliament parliament is no longer supreme in court. The division of power between parliament and the courts, has been criticized. They sit in judgment and they don"t have to explain themselves. The judicial ruling is independent of political influence. Charter doesn"t just guarantee certain freedoms that weren"t guaranteed before, but it also removes some of the power that parliament and the legislators have had. As a result, the dynamics, the relationships between the people, elected officials, and courts have changed fundamentally. The charter was acted to protect individual rights, it reflects the american constitution and the american bill of rights. The american constitution is almost obsessive of individual rights the canadian charter of rights and freedom is a reaction to the british constitution, the.
