BARRY L. STRAYER received his B.A. and LL.B. from the University of Saskatchewan and attended Oxford for his Bachelor of Civil Law degree. After a year as an instructor in law at the University of Saskatchewan he joined the Department of the Attorney General of Saskatchewan where he had occasion to advise on a variety of constitutional problems. He has also acted as a consultant to the government of Saskatchewan on various constitutional matters, and was appointed in 1967 by the Honourable P.E. Trudeau as an adviser to Mr. H. Carl Goldenberg, Q.C., his Spcial Counsel on the Constitution. In 1966 he received his Doctor of Juridical Science from Harvard University, and is, at present, Professor Law at the University of Saskatchewan.