Another thought on the courts

Odd for me to write two posts so quickly after one another, but maybe the courts haven't really been a tool in "safeguarding rights", particularly for minorities, because institutionalized racism was largely done away with through parliamentary means during the 1960s and 1970s and by the time the Charter was enshrined into the constitution during the 1980s, there really wasn't much work left to do.

Maybe if we had individual rights enshrined into the constitution when the BNA Act was first drafted, Canada would've been a more progressive society, even sooner than it has already gone about it, but then again... perhaps allowing Parliament to allow itself to not violate rights was better than having those rights enforced by the courts.

This is probably so obvious, but I had never realized that the BNA act (our original constitution) was so empty, silent and weak on the issue of individual rights up until now.

I guess Canada was just lucky that we never ran into governments that were overly anxious to intrude on our freedoms.