Déclaration canadienne des droits
The plurality's decision in the case was very controversial and would prove influential in the drafting of the "Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms", the successor of the "Canadian Bill of Rights". Indeed, the Supreme Court's narrow and restrained interpretations of the "Canadian Bill of Rights" in cases like "Lavell" certainly reinforced the push for an entrenched bill of rights, like the "Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms".