Canadian Parliament

The Canadian Parliament was conceived by the Fathers of Confederation in 1867, the year of Canada's birth. The Parliament is composed of three arms, the Senate, where Senators come to senatize, the House of Commons, comprised of commoners communicating commonly in either official common language in order to form a common set of laws that applies to all commoners not commonly elected to the House of Commons, and lastly the Head of State, the Queen, who is represented by the Governer General. The Governer General is not elected, but appointed by whomever is high chief of the totem pole in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister.

The Year of Living Dangerously: Canada Ratifies Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982
Perhaps the crowning achievement from the hellspawn that is the Parliamentary process was the ratification of The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, hereafter referred to as the CRF, which came into force on April 17th, 1982. The successful ratification of the CRF belies numerous obstacles, some almost so insurmountable that they threatened the possibility of the CRF ever coming into existence.

One such disagreement whose seeming weight almost crushed the CRF drafting process was known as the Trudeau