15th July 2004, 8:38 AM
alien space marine Wrote:Whats different about our constitution and the U.S one is that ours was written very recently in the 70's.Most of the 1867 constitution is still in effect.
The major changes the 1982 Constitution introduced was the introduction of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms as part of the Constiution, which replaced the Bill of Rights, since the Bill of Rights was only an act of Parliment it could have been suspended by Parliment at any time, while the Charter can't be. The other thing was that Canada could now ammend it's own constitution without an act fo the British Parliment