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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Re: The new equal rights rule and taxation
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Date: Fri, 10-May-85 22:52:34 EDT
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Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: Charter Well Written?


     If you think that incorporating 'common sense' is a desirable
trait for a Charter of rights, then how can you say that our Charter
is 'poorly written'?  Our charter incorporates it right in the first
Section:
 
"... subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as
can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society."
 
     Yes, to answer your question, that's what that phrase is all
about.  The right of the court to apply it's version of 'common sense'.
is built in.
 
     The Charter is about as good a charter as you could get, considering
the 10 provinces carping about it.