I was studying law a couple of years after the charter came into force, before the Supreme Court had made any important charter rulings. My constitutional law prof (a self-professed human rights activist) gushed over the charter and how significant a development it was in terms of Canadian Constitutional law and human rights. He spent hours analyzing and giving us his views on section 1. I recall conversations where a small number of us professed our disagreement with his analysis that section 1 was reasonable and necessary. We have been proven right. He was wrong. He was a Liberal btw.