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by frenchy 1200 days ago
> Canada's charter of rights and freedoms isn't worth the paper it's printed on

While this is certainly technically true, the charter is something of a representation of the social contract that already existed between Canadians and their government, and given that we are a country of common law, that does mean something.

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> and given that we are a country of common law,

technically, Quebec has civil law [1] for a portion of their legal system. If we're being pedantic :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_law