Download or read book Against Judicial Activism written by Rory Leishman and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006-04-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Charter and expansive versions of the federal and provincial human rights codes were supposed to safeguard the human rights and fundamental freedoms of Canadians. Rory Leishman argues that this experiment in radical constitutional reform has failed because judicial activists and human rights adjudicators have read their ideological preferences into the law rather than upholding the law as originally understood.