Guest, Geoffrey Sigalet: Trudeau has been proposing the charter since 1960. So he wrote a paper in 1960 as a member of the Pearson government and saying that we need it, this white paper calling for a Canadian charter. And in that initial plan, there’s nothing about notwithstanding clauses, there’s nothing about limitations clauses. It’s his vision of like, he is this kind of Americanizing vision that will have this national bill of rights. And his view is sort of that that will be a unifying instrument, like this unifying thing that will help combat and help be part of what unifies Canada in the wake of the Quiet Revolution, the rise of Quebec Quad nationalism, and the increasing kind of, it’ll help solve the identity crisis that Canada has as it grows up, as it starts to grow into this period where it becomes a little more distant from Britain, but still not American, right?





