Mr. Speaker, the member, during his speech and in response to questions, referenced a living, breathing document and also the evolution of the charter.
Section 1 says:
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
It is the shock absorber, as it were, to take into account certain circumstances that may occur, or were not anticipated or may become public interest items.
Would he agree that the section 1 override that is available, and has been used from time to time, does in fact represent substantially the living, breathing document that we have, that it is in the interpretation of those principles and not a problem of the individual principles of the charter?