Hey I was creeping you profile and I saw this comment that relates back to my own older comment about checking out Rocco Galati's Constitutional Rights Centre youtube channel. Seriously, this is very relevant information to you, take two hours and take it all in.

Anyways to summarize, the Canadian Constitution is not a single document but a collection of many documents and treatise over centuries and includes even unwritten principles; there is always an element of interpretation in favour of natural law, in the rights of man to be sovereign onto himself as is reasonable to others outside of the will of any higher authority other than God. We are a British Colony, and our rights are based in English Common Law dating back to the Magna Carta, so it is a complex topic. Even PET's charter of rights and freedom's notwithstanding clause is limited in scope due to English common law. Though the notwithstanding clause is written so as if to preclude any right as if it is to be rescind-able, the actual precedences of the Supreme Court of Canada have ruled against it in favour of our pre-existing rights, as established by our English ancestors in keeping the monarch in check of any real absolutist power.

Basically the rights of the individual reign supreme in English common law.