Charter Beats 1947 Rights Bill

The 1982 Charter Of Rights beats all similar provincial bills by placing reasonable limits on Canadians’ freedoms, says the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal. The ruling came in the case of a Saskatoon woman who argued pandemic restrictions violated absolute rights promised by then-Premier Tommy Douglas in 1947: “In a post-Charter world it became unclear.”

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