Social Development Constitutional Law
LIMITS AND CHANGE OVER TIME:
s.1. The CCRF guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
• Text indicates Charter rights are NOT absolute; gov’t can limit them
Two main structural components of s.1:
1. Requirement that all [...]
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