The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Ontario Human Rights Code?

CANADIAN CHARTER AND ONTARIO HUMAN RIGHTS CODE
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The Canadian charter is a bill of rights containing essential rights of Canadians. It built on the Canadian bill of rights from 1960, which was a federal statute as opposed to a constitutional document, meaning it could be amended through a simple legislative process. There was a need to safeguard these rights by entrenching them into the supreme law of Canada; the constitution. This was actualized on April 17th, 1982 when it was signed into law by Queen Elizabeth II in Ottawa.
The scope of judicial review on people’s rights was expanded together with the judges’ role in enforcing them. Section 24 gave judges the additional power to exclude evidence if deemed to have been obtained in a manner contravening the ch...