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The philosophy postulating the protection of human rights is based on values that are fundamental to western civilization. These values found expression in Jerusalem and in Athens. The divine command to love one's neighbour as one loves oneself and to obey God's laws is the basis of the sovereign's duty to respect these "unwritten and immutable divine laws" of which Sophocles speaks. It took many centuries before these rights, "droits naturels et imprescriptible de l'homme," were recognized by the state to the extent that their breach was supposed to entitle the citizens to revolt.

On October 26, 1968, the delegates to the Eleventh Session of The Hague Conference on Private International Law decided to submit, for consideration by their respective governments, a draft Convention on the law applicable to traffic accidents. Article 14 of the Convention permits ratification by a country which, like Canada, has a non-unified legal system, if the Convention has been extended to at least one of its jurisdictions. The Convention aims at uniformity in a branch of the law where, until now, to quote an eminent jurist, "case-to-case decisions [did] not add up to a system of justice."Under Canadian constitutional law the implementation of the Convention requires provincial legislation. At the invitation of the government of Canada a delegate of the Conference of Commissioners on Uniformity of Legislation in Canada participated at the session in The Hague as a member of the Canadian delegation.