As promised, A Podcast Called INTREPID is pleased to launch our second “context-builder” special series. Fresh on the heels of Her Majesty in Right of Pod, we are pleased to start our primer series on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Scheduled for summertime listening, we are calling this one “Muskoka Chair Chats”. Our co-host for this series is Carissima Mathen, from the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, and co-author, most recently, of a new book on the infamous Supreme Court appointment controversy six years ago, The Tenth Justice.

In this inaugural episode, we build our foundation: this is the “origin story” of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. We discuss why Canada finally, more than a century after its first codification of constitutional law, decided to embed human rights into its written constitution in 1982. Stay tuned for our continuing series through this summer.