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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Free trade, Canadian culture, $$
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Date: Tue, 3-Mar-87 17:45:50 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  3 17:45:50 1987
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> ... A piece of
> legislation that contravened the Charter in an obvious manner, e.g.
> shooting all persons of West Indian background, *would* indeed be struck
> down in any court in this country...

Really?  Even if there was strong government and popular support for it?
I observe again that military conscription is a clear and obvious violation
of the US Bill Of Rights, yet in this century the US Supreme Court has quite
consistently upheld conscription as legitimate, using some remarkably
contrived arguments.  Perhaps the Canadian courts would do better, but I
wouldn't stake my life on it.
-- 
"We must choose: the stars or	Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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