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The first order of business is to continue the #CAQBS...

Premier Fréchette to renew #notwithstandingclause on Québec's language law: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-notwithstanding-clause-9.7188161 #CAQASTROPHE #CAQ #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #languagewars #beingbilingualisnotabadthing

Premier Fréchette to renew notwithstanding clause on Quebec's language law | CBC News

The notwithstanding clause, which has been invoked most frequently by Quebec, allows provincial governments to enact legislation that limits sections of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms for a maximum of five years.

CBC

Edwin G.

May 6

Independentist party Solidarity Québec to table a bill regulating the use of the notwithstanding clause by the province

https://montreal.citynews.ca/2026/05/06/quebec-solidaire-nothwithstanding-clause/
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Le parti indépendantiste Québec solidaire déposera un projet de loi pour encadrer l’usage de la clause nonobstant par la province

https://lp.ca/vLr6yI?sharing=true

#Québec #CANpoli #CDNpoli #NotwithstandingClause #ClauseNonobstant

Québec solidaire to table bill to regulate use of notwithstanding clause

Québec solidaire (QS) is following in the footsteps of the Barreau du Québec and proposing to regulate the use of the notwithstanding clause. QS MNA Haroun Bouazzi is expected to table a bill to this effect on Thursday. The notwithstanding clause removes laws that contravene fundamental rights from judicial review. Since coming to power in […]

CityNews Montreal

M. Grégoire May 4

"Blakeney and Lougheed came from opposite ends of the political spectrum. They agreed on this: the people who make the laws, and who answer to voters, must retain the final word on the great policy questions, at least provisionally, at least subject to the democratic check of the next election."

Cody Mallette: Courts must not rewrite notwithstanding clause
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/cody-mallette-notwithstanding-clause-was-the-price-of-the-charter-courts-must-not-rewrite-it

#NotwithstandingClause
#CanPol #cdnpoli
#NationalPost

Cody Mallette: Notwithstanding clause was the price of the Charter. Courts must not rewrite it

The 1981 constitutional compromise that gave Canada the Charter is now at risk of judicial revision in a English Montreal School Board case

nationalpost

M. Grégoire Apr 18

« J’ai été rassurée par le fait qu’il n’y a pas de volonté de sa part, de M. Carney, de modifier ou d’encadrer la clause dérogatoire [disposition de dérogation] », a affirmé la nouvelle première ministre du Québec en mêlée de presse après cette rencontre. « Il y a eu des excuses qui ont été exprimées par le fédéral, donc pour moi ça m’a rassurée. »

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/politique/2026-04-17/disposition-de-derogation/ottawa-presente-ses-excuses-a-frechette.php

#NotwithstandingClause
#ChristineFréchette #MarkCarney
#CanPol #cdnpoli #polqc
#LaPresse

Disposition de dérogation Ottawa présente ses excuses à Fréchette

(Ottawa) Christine Fréchette s’est dite rassurée par les excuses du gouvernement fédéral, vendredi. Une controverse sur la disposition de dérogation a pimenté sa première rencontre avec son homologue Mark Carney.

La Presse

Edwin G.

Apr 17

The leader of the Liberal Party says they will renew the notwithstanding clause on bill 96

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/charles-milliard-bill-96-9.7167877
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Le chef du parti Libéral déclare qu’ils renouvèleront la clause nonobstant sur la loi 96

https://lp.ca/6TeYoS?sharing=true

#Québec #QCpoli #Bill96 #Loi96 #NotwithstandingClause #ClauseNonobstant

Quebec Liberal leader surprises his own party with position on language law | CBC Accessibility

Quebec Liberal leader Charles Milliard is facing questions within his own ranks after saying he is “in favour” of maintaining the notwithstanding clause for Bill 96, the province’s language law.

CBC

CBC Ottawa Apr 17

Quebec Liberal leader surprises his own party with position on language law
Quebec Liberal leader Charles Milliard is facing questions within his own ranks after saying he is “in favour” of maintaining the notwithstanding clause for Bill 96, the province’s language law.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/charles-milliard-bill-96-9.7167877?cmp=rss

CBC Montreal Apr 17

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RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/montreal-efbss3oiz/-/a-MuLP36l5Qqq3RRGcZ4N_uA%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0

The #NotWithstandingClause is becoming the new Frank’s Red Hot: you just pour that s**t on everything. 🤦‍♂️

#QCPoli

Edwin G.

Apr 17

Canada’s 🇨🇦 44-year old Charter of Rights and Freedoms is being slowly dismantled by the provinces invoking the notwithstanding clause

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/charter-rights-freedoms-turns-44-9.7166036
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La Charte des droits et libertés du Canada 🇨🇦, âgée de 44 ans, est tranquillement d’être démantelée par les provinces qui invoquent la clause nonobstant

// Article en anglais //

#Canada #CANpoli #CDNpoli #NotwithstandingClause #ClauseNonobstant

Justice minister open to notwithstanding clause guardrails | CBC News

Canada's Justice Minister Sean Fraser says he has significant concerns with the way the provinces are overriding Charter rights by invoking the notwithstanding clause, and he's prepared to establish guardrails around its use at the federal level as the document turns 44.

CBC

CBC Politics Apr 17

Charter at a turning point as it turns 44
Canada's Justice Minister Sean Fraser says he has significant concerns with the way the provinces are overriding Charter rights by invoking the notwithstanding clause, and he's prepared to establish guardrails around its use as the document turns 44.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/charter-rights-freedoms-turns-44-9.7166036?cmp=rss