The last living premier who took part in the 1982 Constitution negotiations says Canadian governments have “violated” the country’s supreme law and governing legal framework during the pandemic. Brian Peckford, who served as Newfoundland and Labrador’s third premier from 1979 to 1989 and has been a Vancouver Island resident since the 1990s, says “governments from Saint John’s to Victoria” have defied the freedom of assembly outlined in Section 2 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms—the most recognized part of the Constitution—and also turned their backs on three other sections. “Then there’s Section 6 of the charter, which talks about mobility and the right of Canadians to travel anywhere in Canada or leave Canada, and that’s being violated all over the place. And then there is within that Section 6 as well the right of a person for gainful employment,” Peckford explained in an interview. “When people take jobs away …