If you said to the average Canadian, “What does it mean to exercise your charter right to freedom of expression, and when can it be restricted?”, I think people would be shocked to know that we frequently see injunctions being used to restrict protest rights without even considering charter rights, because it's not necessary in that analysis. Because of that, it's become an easy way for corporations and other powerful institutions, including universities—which are funded by the state—to silence freedom of expression and remove protesters without even having charter rights considered.
That is why we intervened in the Vancouver Island University case, and in similar cases before that, arguing that the law needs to adapt to consider charter rights. These are our fundamental rights, and they are so important to our democracy. They're protected in the Constitution. We have principles in law saying that common law and the decisions judges make should align with the charter and its values, because these principles are so integral to our liberal democracy and—