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Charter and Individual Rights

legal system: The Charter very carefully balanced individual rights versus the power of the state and purposefully set a high bar for when it would be appropriate for the individual right to be secondary to the states, according to Huffington Post Canada. Our legal system had also added beauty to the Charter by adopting a living tree approach, which allowed the Charter interpretation to evolve over time. To me it was the quintessential Canadian document -- one that protected the rights of all, promoted equality, celebrated our differences, and made our laws subject to a very high ethical and moral threshold. So very rational. So progressive. So balanced. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.