{"id":2340,"date":"2025-02-25T21:39:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T21:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/?page_id=2340"},"modified":"2025-02-27T05:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T05:20:49","slug":"profile-barry-lee-strayer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/profile-barry-lee-strayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile \u2013 Barry Lee Strayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1612\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1612\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/Strayer-2008.png\" alt=\"Barry Lee Strayer decorated in 2008\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/Strayer-2008.png 400w, https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/Strayer-2008-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hon. Barry L Strayer, O.C., C.r., B.A., LL.L., LL.B., J.S.D.<\/p><\/div>\n<h4 style=\"text-align:center;\">Barry Lee Strayer<\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/Patriation-and-Legitimacy-Divider.png\" alt=\"Patriation and Legitimacy Divider\" width=\"526\" height=\"13\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/Patriation-and-Legitimacy-Divider.png 526w, https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/Patriation-and-Legitimacy-Divider-300x7.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>he Wages of Treason is Honor.&nbsp; Barry Lee Strayer betrayed his country and his countrymen.&nbsp; He held a federal judicial post for years under the coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat he helped to impose.&nbsp; He filled his pockets with the tax money of those he betrayed.&nbsp; As the cherry on top, the Queen&#8217;s representative, the Governor General, pinned a ribbon on his lapel.<\/p>\n<p>The meaning of the acronyms:<\/p>\n<p>Officer of the Order of Canada (O.C.)<br \/>\nQueen&#8217;s Counsel (Q.C.)<br \/>\nBachelor of Arts (B.A.)<br \/>\nBachelor of Laws (L.L.B.)<br \/>\nBachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.)<br \/>\n<em>Scientiae Juridicae Doctor<\/em> (S.J.D.)<\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" noshade width=\"260\" \/>\n<h4 style=\"text-align:center;\">Strayer&#8217;s Career<\/h4>\n<p>Barry Lee Strayer, OC (born August 13, 1932 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan) served as a Justice of the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal and later as a Deputy Judge of the Federal Court of Canada.&nbsp; He is known as one of the instrumental drafters of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>In 1959, Strayer graduated from the faculty of law at the University of Saskatchewan.&nbsp; He worked at the Department of Justice in Saskatchewan until 1963 at which point he began teaching at the University of Saskatchewan.&nbsp; He eventually became the Director of the Constitutional Law Division of the Privy Council Office.&nbsp; In 1974 he was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister of Justice where he spent several years working on first drafts of the Charter.&nbsp; In 2008, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2216\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2216\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/Barry_L._Strayer_Beechwood_BW-400-x.png\" alt=\"Hon. Barry L Strayer, O.C., Q.C., B.A., LL.B., B.C.L., S.J.D.\" width=\"400\" height=\"522\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/Barry_L._Strayer_Beechwood_BW-400-x.png 400w, https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/Barry_L._Strayer_Beechwood_BW-400-x-230x300.png 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hon. Barry L Strayer, O.C., Q.C., B.A., LL.B., B.C.L., S.J.D.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1607\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1607\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/GG2010-0139-026-DavidMata-Order-of-Canada-BW.png\" alt=\"Barry Lee Strayer decorated in 2008\" width=\"750\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/GG2010-0139-026-DavidMata-Order-of-Canada-BW.png 750w, https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/GG2010-0139-026-DavidMata-Order-of-Canada-BW-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/GG2010-0139-026-DavidMata-Order-of-Canada-BW-740x592.png 740w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barry Lee Strayer decorated in 2008<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2437\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2437\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/Barry-Lee-Strayer-seated-grey.png\" alt=\"Hon. Barry Lee Strayer, O.C., Q.C., B.A., LL.B., B.C.L., S.J.D.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/Barry-Lee-Strayer-seated-grey.png 1280w, https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/Barry-Lee-Strayer-seated-grey-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/Barry-Lee-Strayer-seated-grey-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/Barry-Lee-Strayer-seated-grey-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/Barry-Lee-Strayer-seated-grey-520x292.png 520w, https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/Barry-Lee-Strayer-seated-grey-740x416.png 740w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hon. Barry Lee Strayer, O.C., Q.C., B.A., LL.B., B.C.L., S.J.D.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Lee Strayer The Wages of Treason is Honor.&nbsp; Barry Lee Strayer betrayed his country and his countrymen.&nbsp; He held a federal judicial post&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438,"href":"https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2340\/revisions\/2438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patriationandlegitimacy.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}