That is Dominion Day.
When Canada passed bill C-201 changing the name of the day from Dominion Day to Canada day in 1982, they did not have the Federal power to change that name. Only an act of British Parliament could have done that. It was not until 1987 that this would have been possible legally, or constitutionally.
Laskin and his confederates in Osgoode Hall conspired to lend credence to the falsehood that Canada did not have a constitution, alleging that the lack of one did not allow Judges to overrule statute law, thus disallowing constitutional review of any statute or act of constabulary in a court case. In fact the Statute of Westminster and the various BNA acts since 1867 allowed the rule of British Law to harmonize with Canadian. That meant in effect that all previous precedent and practice of all constitutional acts of Britain applied de facto in CDN courts and other areas of law. The Magna Carta included. The wilful blindness of CDN courts in pretending that no acts or other structure defined this precedent, was gross in its magnitude, as if there were not constitution, no Dominion could exist, or country, or bodies of law.. no courts, no Parliament. The fact that they did exist and made law, statute, or otherwise, lent ample mute credence to the fact that one must exist, even if it were not seen or know what documents made this so. In other words, bullshit. A constitution existed. The constitution was implicit in the structure and administration of British Law and Justice, regulation, Parliament and explicit in the Statutes of the BNA acts, all passed by British PArliament, and the Statutes of Westminster. The meaning of the word constitution is not " a document made up by people arguing a base or pretext for governance", but a body politic, practice and legal proclamation, which assumes a formation of a governance. These things, existed in many forms, and stretched back by British history for 1000 years. To throw it all away, wrested as it were by the blood and trial of thousands of dissenting and petitioning governed, was to want to embrace a young whore adorned with fine raiment to spurn an aged and noble lady, albeit with tattered clothing, but possessed of a living beating heart of mercy, and unquenchable fire of virtue that was the strongest succour, the main defense, the advocate unassailable, for the redress of grievance of lowest of citizens and vengeance of the wrongs done in any name by any power or person of any station. All of these precedences, worked out by a millenium of sacrifice and argument, proved by test of time their virtues. To say their inheritance was in doubt was laughable. To put forth the notion that we must ignore our heritage was heresy of the most specious and traitorous kind. No manner of words can replace the decisions won by the struggles of history. These things were not obsolete or archaic, they were living law. We tore down the statue and sold our birth right for a mess of pottage.
Happy Dominion Day. |
