When I started up this blog, I had searched URL’s and found that “constitutionally-yours.com” was available, I liked the name and so I took it. After I had been doing this blog for about 6 weeks, I realized that there had been (or still is) another blog, run out of the United States under the same name “Constitutionally Yours”. It had not seen activity for a while but I thought, “Why create confusion?” So I have changed this blog to “Constitutionally Canadian”. The URL will be http://www.constitutionalcanadian.com. I look forward to continuing under this new moniker.

I still remain though

Yours constitutionally

Arthur Grant

PS Though I am sure everyone knows, yesterday, the Supreme Court of Canada granted leave to appeal in Carter v. Attorney General for British Columbia, the case on physician assisted suicide.

Yesterday, the world lost a great human being. Nelson Mandela was one of the few people who could honestly say that he left the world a better place than when he came into it. His selflessness, his dedication to the concepts of equality and decency, his refusal to wreak retribution on those who had caused him so much misery stand as beacons, as guiding lights for us all. As we go forward in our lives, even as we consider Canada’s constitutional issues, we can draw much from Nelson Mandela’s words, spoken in relation to South Africa and the establishment of a new constitution in the post-apartheid era, but applicable in any country:

“Historical enemies succeeded in negotiating a peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy exactly because we were prepared to accept the inherent capacity for goodness in the other. My wish is that South Africans never give up on the belief in goodness, that they cherish that faith in human beings as a cornerstone of our democracy.”

Thank you Nelson Mandela. You have enriched us all.

Arthur Grant