Can you speak to the political and social dynamics of the decades leading up to the charter that provided support for this idea? of repatriating or taking back our constitution?

Sure.

So the enactment of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982 was at least six decades in the making.

We've got to go back to at least 1926 to a British imperial conference and a report known as the Balfour Report.

that recognized the independent legal status of the Dominions.

And the Dominions at the time were Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the Irish Free State.

And at that Imperial Conference, the British government said that the Dominions were free to legislate for their own and that the British Parliament would no longer legislate for the Dominions unless they were requested to do so.

Can you speak to how this provision arose out of the what's known as the one last time conference?