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Diefenbaker’s Bill of Rights an act worth remembering
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
Aug 10 2010
“I was struck,” Pierre Trudeau said, “by his vigorous defence of human rights and individual liberties. The Bill of Rights remains a monument to him.” August 10 is the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of the Canadian Bill of Rights. Had this lifelong dream of Diefenbaker’s not become a reality, one could argue that Trudeau’s own Charter of Rights might not have come into being… “I believe the time has come for a declaration of liberties to be made by this Parliament,” he thundered in the Commons in 1946.
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