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The Relevance of the Writings of Edmund Burke to the Passage, Interpretation and Implementation of Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982

Below is an important article by gifted legal eagle Peter Best on Edmund Burke and his relevance to section 35 of Canada’s Constitution.

Best blames Jean Chretien, Bob Rae, and Roy Romanow for recklessly inserting section 35 into the 1982 Constitution.

He also argues that Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau had mentally checked out of thinking about Indigenous…