Contained in all democratic constitutions are provisions reflecting the necessary compromises that were made to obtain agreement on these fundamental laws, and, one hopes, to allow them to work. Not surprisingly, these constitutional provisions are then used by those who emerge from the electoral process to further political ambitions ranging from the creation of a heaven on Earth to winning the next election. The Canadian constitutional arrangements did not arrive as a reflection of the divine, around which we could all gather and give praise to those who were reasonably successful in its creation. It is neither perfect nor imperfect. It is, rather, a profane document around which the affairs of some tens of millions of diverse peoples with an enormous land mass at their disposal can sort out overlapping and conflicting issues affecting their daily lives.