CALGARY—Former Newfoundland Premier and the last surviving first minister who helped frame Canada’s 1982 Constitution Brian Peckford says today’s courts are “trying to secularize our nation” and are abandoning the Charter’s original framework anchored in “the supremacy of God and the rule of law.”
“What happened to God?” Peckford asked the crowd at the Conference for Dominion of Canada hosted by the Council of Alberta Lawyers on May 16 in Calgar…