I just read the Constitution Act of 1982. Man, that is some dry stuff. Part 1, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, that was interesting. But Parts 2 through 7? Boring as hell! They take up half the document specifying how the document itself can be changed. Important stuff I suppose. I mean, you don't necessarily want some guy off the street stopping by at the Parliament Buildings one Thursday afternoon and deleting the part about innocent until you're proven guilty. That wouldn't do at all. You need to have the consent of the House of Commons, Senate, Governor-General, and two thirds of the provinces with over fifty percent of the population. I'm not quite sure how that last part works out. But I'm assuming that somebody knows what's going on, otherwise they wouldn't have amended it already.
What do I really have to say about the Constitution Act? Well, nothing, really, I guess. It's good to know your rights though. Then when you get into trouble or you want to start a protest or something, you can cite the actual document. So all Canadians should read and memorize the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Yeah right. That's going to happen, eh? I wonder how many people (and who they are, in general), have read the thing.