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Podcast: Faytene TV
Episode: Canada In The Courts with John Carpay
Description: The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, also known as the Charter, lays out every Canadian's fundamental rights and freedoms.They include freedom of conscience, religion, thought, belief, opinion and expression, freedom of the press, and other media communication, freedom of peaceful assembly and of association. Unless it can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society, these rights are protected by law, and governments cannot breach them.Governments cannot override these rights without strong proof that it is necessary — this is why the work of organizations such as...