Ted Morton: The Charter is gutting the provinces and the data proves it

2026-01-29 - 16:11

Four years ago — on the 40th anniversary of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms — I wrote in National Post that the Charter was one of the worst bargains ever struck in the history of Canadian federalism. I argued that it had become little more than a disguised version of the old, discredited federal power of disallowance, a federal veto over provincial policies, now exercised by the Supreme Court rather than by Cabinet. The result: a steady erosion of provincial jurisdictions. Read More