Keegstra And The Children's Aid Society Case Study

After reading both the Keegstra and the Children’s Aid Society case studies one got a more bold understanding of how the Charter affects the Canadian society. The Charter impacted the Canadian society by helping protect and shape the people’s rights in the Canadian society. Like in the Keegstra and the Children’s Aid Society cases the charter showed that everyone has equal rights, however the Supreme Court can stop you if you pass a certain limit. In the Keegstra case the Supreme Court defined to the public what the limit towards the freedom of expression is. Like in the children aid society case the Supreme Court showed the people their limit of the freedom of religion. The charter impacts the Canadian society by defining to the public their
However the Charter protected the rights of the minority people, because if Canada had more people like James Keegstra Canada would be a very bad place to live in. In 1984, there was a high school teacher with the name of James of Keegstra, and he made no secret to the school his hatred towards the Jewish people. He labeled the Jewish people as “materialistic”, “barbaric”, and “sadistic”. Keegstra also believed that the Jewish people created the Holocaust so that the world would sympathize with them. When he was eventually convicted at trial, he was found guilty and that the government had not violated his fundamental rights. By the Supreme Court doing so, the people now know that the limit is that you have total freedom of expression unless you start accusing and spreading hatred speeches towards them. In conclusion, this impacted the Canadian society by providing people who believed in total freedom an example that even your most important freedoms can be limited. Thanks to the withstanding clause the Supreme Court can limit and tailor fundamental freedoms so that everyone is