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Comment: Canada, the 1982 Constitution, and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms followed The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966), and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966). In mid-1970s, a lot of pressure was applied on all countries to ratify or sign these resolutions. To some extend, they were seen as competition to the communist dictature of proletariat and, definitely, they were part of the ideological competition between capitalism and socialism/communism. Ratification required that countries implement these principles in their national legal frameworks. Yet, when you look at the Canadian Charter, unfortunately, it does not go as far as the Declaration and the Covenants.