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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 January 2008
On 17 April 2002, Canada will mark the 20th anniversary of the adoption of its bill of rights—the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. At the time, it seemed a momentous event to many, a strange thing to do. True, Canada was a bi-jural country, thanks to Quebec and the Civil Code. Nevertheless, the rest of the country sat solidly in the common law tradition. Codes, or so we thought, were anathema to common law systems that prided themselves on protection of rights through the incremental growth of precedent.
1 [1986] 2 SCR 573.
2 Swain v The Queen [1991] 1 SCR 933.
3 Lavigne v OPSUE [1991] 2 SCR. 211; Douglas Kwantlen Faculty Assn v Douglas College [1990] 3 SCR 570.
4 Operation Dismantle v The Queen [1985] 1 SCR 441.
5 [1995] 2 SCR 1130.
6 4th edn, 858.
7 (1963) 376 US 254.
8 s 32.
9 [1989] 1 SCR 1038, at 1078; R v Swain [1991] 1 SCR 933, at 1010; R v Nova Scotia Pharmaceutical Society [1992] 2 SCR 606, at 660; R v Lucas [1998] 1 SCR 439, at para 66; R v Sharpe [2001] 1 SCR 45, at para 33.
10 [1985] 1 SCR 721.
11 [1992] 2 SCR 679.
12 [1991] 2 SCR 577.
13 [1999] 3 SCR 668.
14 Peter Hogg and Allison Bushell ‘The Charter Dialogue Between the Courts and Legislatures’ (1997) Osgoode Hall Law J 75.
