SOSC 2350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Ultra Vires, Tobacco Advertising, Indian Act
4 Oct 2017
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Charter for the first time bestowed individual rights on canadians. Charter created absolute rights that parliament and the legislatures cannot abridge. Charter has replaces parliamentary supremacy with judicial supremacy. Aboriginals didn"t have the right to vote until 1960s. Women didn"t have the right to vote until 1916. In 1929 women were considered as persons" capable of sitting in the senate, . The canadian charter of rights and freedoms, 1982 follows the european model as in s. 1 it states that it may guarantee rights and freedoms only if it is reasonable. In other words if the law is reasonable and justified in the canadian society then the law stands, even though if it violates the charter. The elected legislators (provincial legislatures and parliament) have the power to pass laws but only laws that comply with the powers that the constitution confers on them.
