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Why We Must NOT Reopen the Constitution

September 3, 2014

Those who want Canada's Constitution repaired, renewed, revitalized, re-jigged, re-worked, or otherwise re-opened, need to spend a working vacation with a bomb squad. They need refreshment in their understanding of what happens when something that isn't right goes completely wrong. The rest of us should be given leave to head for the hills. If that sounds alarmist—hey, it's just a constitution—it is probably because too many of us have already forgotten the catastrophe of the last round of nation building in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In the kind of paradox that particularly bedevils politics, it was actually a well-intentioned attempt to fix the horrendous damage done by the previous round of history-making dreams. And it put us squarely on the road to hell. Read the rest of this article at the C2C Journal website.