Canada's Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-82

The extent of the transformation since that time is measured by the elimination of "race" as a condition for immigration or for the franchise, the passage of the federal Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the introduction of provincial human rights codes and commissions to enforce them. [...] there has been a legal sea change, and one that has been accompanied by a shift in public morality and even in national identity.