Thank you.
You know, there's been talk about competing jurisprudence based on competing values and competing views of the world. There's been talk about relativism in the post-modern world. But when I look at Canada, I see as sort of one of our fundamental truths the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which is based on small-l liberal values that, as you mentioned, Mr. Mansur, have been acquired through a lot of bloodshed over centuries and so on.
I'm just wondering what you think the charter's impact can be in terms of acting as a buttress, I guess, against any ideology that is blatantly or profoundly illiberal. For example, you seemed to suggest there were Islamists in the higher reaches of academia and so on and so forth. But law schools produce lawyers who study very hard the jurisprudence of Canada, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the values that are incorporated in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Is there not reason for optimism that in our educational system the charter, if we celebrate it properly, will instill a new way of thinking? People don't remain static through generations, or even in a lifetime.
I'm wondering if you think that the charter and our legal system, in all of its aspects, can act as a buttress against values that are inimical to small-l liberalism.