Section 33 allows Parliament and provincial legislatures to immunize
legislation from judicial review and invalidation under sections 2 and 7 to 15 of the Charter — provisions protecting, among other things, the freedoms of religion and expression, the due process rights of the accused in criminal cases, and most equality rights.
Consistent with these earlier reports, the Commission strongly favoured statutory appeals over
judicial review as a simpler mechanism for legal oversight that can be calibrated to address the particularities of statutory tribunal decisions, and recommended that
legislation contain a right of appeal on questions of law (and in certain instances on questions of fact) to the courts
from the exercise of statutory power with only a few exceptions.