Gang Of Eight And The Fight For Canad The Last Act By Ron Graham

Ron Graham's book, The Last Act: Pierre Trudeau, The Gang of Eight and the Fight for Canada, is informative and influential in explaining and describing the events of the 1981 conference. In this book, Graham uses his advantage as a previous reporter/journalist from the time that the events of this book took place as a way to tell the story of Patriation through his own perspective. The events of this time took palace due to a unified decision of necessary change in our country, leading to important negotiations and eventual changes to our country's constitution and the creation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This book discusses the political and social changes that took place in the 1980s and the fight to preserve unity within Canada,

He also notes the charters' mass effect on the country's political and legal systems, and how very few have attempted to challenge it over the

These are seen in the lessons that appear to be prevalent from the conference, on the importance of topics such as constitutional reform, federal-provincial relations, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and public opinion and political leadership in our country's politics. Each of these topics show themselves in our everyday lives, such as fights and debates over our rights as citizens on topics such as our education, as seen in issues like Doug Ford cutting funding in Ontario, or the debates on the rights of Indigenous peoples that have been happening for decades. “The Charter protects those basic rights and freedoms of all Canadians that are considered essential to preserving Canada as a free and democratic country.” The rights protected under the charter are our everyday rights, the ones that, in a perfect world, wouldn't need to be written down. Knowing now how this charter came to be shows the importance of the effect that patriation has left on our country. However contemporary Canada is not without its issues, as stated earlier. Even with these important lessons, and our written out charter that has the basic rights for humans, we still fail to support and provide these rights to many marginalised communities and