The notwithstanding clause should not be used to prop up hate, fear, racism, xenophobia, antisemitism, etc., etc., etc. provincial legislation.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/supreme-court-challenge-bill-21-canada-implications-9.7097747 #bill21 #loi21 #polQC #QCpoli #cdnpoli #polcan

The legality of the preemptive use of the notwithstanding clause

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/supreme-court-challenge-bill-21-canada-implications-9.7097747
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La légalité de l’utilisation préemptive de la clause nonobstant

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#Canada #CANpoli #CDNpoli #QCpoli #Bill21 #Loi21

Ottawa urges Supreme Court to set limits on how provinces can override Charter

The federal government is asking the Supreme Court of Canada to set limits around how provincial governments can…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AlbertaLegislature #Bill21 #CA #Canada #CharterofRightsandFreedoms #NotwithstandingClause #Politics
https://www.newsbeep.com/130445/

@AWolfInCheapClothing

Yeah, this is mostly BS.

The moment they lost the #QuebecReferendum in #1995, the leader of the #PartiQuebecois IMMEDIATELY blamed "money and the ethnic vote."

Modern #Quebecois are no better; see #Bill21.

They may be right about the #UCP "wanting an oil based future," (the UCP really are villains from an episode of #CaptainPlanet) but ultimately, the only difference is one group are #racist #Anglophones and the other group are racist #Francophones.

#CanPol