Barry Lee Strayer, OC (born August 13, 1932 in

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) served as a Justice of the Canadian

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and later as a Deputy Judge of the Federal Court of Canada. He is known as one of the instrumental drafters of the ''

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''. In 1959, Strayer graduated from the faculty of law at the

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. He worked at the Department of Justice in Saskatchewan until 1963 at which point he began teaching at the University of Saskatchewan. He eventually became the Director of the Constitutional Law Division of the Privy Council Office. In 1974, he was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister of Justice where he spent several years working on first drafts of the Charter. In 2008, he was made an Officer of the

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