How has the Charter of Rights and Freedoms been interpreted?

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, like other constitutional documents, has been afforded a special status. The classic statement of the interpretive approach to be taken to constitutional documents was stated in Edwards v. A.-G. Can., 1929 CanLII 438 (UK JCPC), [1930] 1 D.L.R. 98, [1929] 3 W.W.R. 479, [1930] A.C. 124 (P.C.), where Lord Sankey wrote [at pp. 106-7]: The B.N.A. Act planted in Canada a living tree capable of growth and expansion within its natural limits. The object of the Act was to grant a constitution to Canada. • • • • • Their Lordships do not conceive it to be the duty of this Board ... to cut down the provisions of the Act by a narrow and technical construction, but rather to give it a large and liberal interpretation.