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In his introduction to this collection of essays by constitutional
experts, Philip Bryden says that Canadians can be proud of their
commitment to the protection of rights and liberties in the
Charter. Canada, he believes, is a better place to live then it
would be otherwise. Nevertheless, as the essays in this book
reveal, the case in favour of the Charter is not simple or
one-sided. For instance, Kim Campbell, minister of justice at the
time of writing, and Jeffrey Simpson of the Globe and Mail express
concern that the Charter promotes a rights discourse that threatens
to overwhelm the ordinary politics of recognizing and accommodating
different interests. Dean Lynn Smith of the University of British
Columbia law faculty observes that the Charter rights are better
understood as complementing than as supplanting traditional
mechanisms. The authors, diverse in background and outlook, reflect
varying points of view but share a significant degree of consensus
on issues that need to be addressed.
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