Posted AT 6:00 AM EDT on 09/04/07
Judges garner greater trust than politicians, survey finds
The jury was out on April 17, 1982, when the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms came into being. It was entirely open to speculation as to whether the judiciary would embrace or retreat from the new powers the Charter conferred on them.
Twenty-five years — and many hundred Charter rulings — later, it is undeniable that a broad spectrum of Charter decisions has profoundly changed both the country and the Canadian psyche.
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