Yeah, you keep rattling on about your rights to own a gun yet when you are shown that you in fact don't have the right as a Canadian citizen in Canada, you flail and froth and grouse while never managing to show where it is that this ancient right counters the law made right here in Canada that expressly tells you that you don't have that right. For someone who claims they are as schooled in history as you do, you certainly are consistent in failing to understand and recall it accurately.
The abortion law was in breach of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantees the right to life, liberty, and security of the person. As one of the justices stated: "The right to liberty...guarantees a degree of personal autonomy over important decisions intimately affecting his or her private life. ... The decision whether or not to terminate a pregnancy is essentially a moral decision and in a free and democratic society, the conscience of the individual must be paramount to that of the state."
Sorry mister history, yes they did on January 28, 1988, as I've shown you above.
To sum up, no one has the right to own or bear a gun in Canada. Any woman in Canada has the right to choose to abort her pregnancy.
Oh, stop being deceptive.
The line you quoted in the 1988 abortion decision came from one of nine justices, and was NOT part of the majority decision, which most certainly did NOT judge that abortion was a "right". What it DID judge was that the system as it stood was inflexible, and often made any abortion impossible, and was unequally applied, in violation of the basic principles of justice.
Now, here is section 26 of the Charter;
26. The guarantee in this Charter of certain rights and freedoms shall not be construed as denying the existence of any other rights or freedoms that exist in Canada.
Here is the Bill of Rights of 1689....part of our constitutional heritage, and the foundation of constitutional monarchy (It was presented to William and Mary, and had to be accepted by them as a condition of their taking the throne)
And thereupon the said lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, pursuant to their respective letters and elections, being now assembled in a full and free representative of this nation, taking into their most serious consideration the best means for attaining the ends aforesaid; do in the first place (as their ancestors in like case have usually done) for the vindicating and asserting their ancient rights and liberties, declare;......................
7. That the subjects.......may have arms for their defence suitable to their conditions, and as allowed by law.
My emphasis added.
Now then, that certainly applied to Canada, as the entire history of the English constitution applied to Canada, and as was stated in our own Charter of Rights.....was NOT removed by that Charter.
Also notice that the "said lords" did NOT presume to have the power to grant rights, only to vindicate and assert their ancient rights. How much more liberal they were than the control freaks of today, who are so deluded as to believe they have the power to grant and remove basic rights!!!!
Also notice that the right of the individual to keep arms was for DEFENCE, not duck hunting.
Yes, there is a limited right to keep arms in Canada.
Here, at least, you're being honest.....the true philosophy of the control freak.
