This is a very complex issue and people expressing immediate outrage are looking at it superficially.
This was the law they deemed as violating the charter:
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For the purposes of this section, a person departs markedly from the standard of reasonable care generally recognized in Canadian society and is thereby criminally at fault where the person, while in a state of self-induced intoxication that renders the person unaware of, or incapable of consciously controlling, their behaviour, voluntarily or involuntarily interferes or threatens to interfere with the bodily integrity of another person.
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They said it was too broad.