The architects of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms thought the Notwithstanding Clause would only be used in exceptional circumstances. Conservative premiers seem determined to prove them wrong.
It allows the violation of certain individual clauses of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, not the entire Constitution, and its effect lapses after five years if whatever chucklefucks are in office at the provincial level at that time don’t care enough to reconfirm the violation. Not that that’s much better.
It allows the violation of certain individual clauses of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, not the entire Constitution, and its effect lapses after five years if whatever chucklefucks are in office at the provincial level at that time don’t care enough to reconfirm the violation. Not that that’s much better.