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    Hunter v. Southam

    [1984] 2 S.C.R. 145

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    The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is a purposive document. Its purpose is to guarantee and to protect, within the limits of reason, the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms it enshrines.

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