Posted AT 11:31 AM EDT on 10/04/07
The most-important Charter cases
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 it.
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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