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The notwithstanding clause is at the very least controversial whenever anyone uses it. One can argue its importance, but there is always a degree of discomfort whenever it is used.
The notwithstanding clause is at the very least controversial whenever anyone uses it. One can argue its importance, but there is always a degree of discomfort whenever it is used.
I disagree with it's conception being made necessary in the first place, but here we are and probably would not be here without it having been offered and accepted. I just object to it being thought necessary to be used by ANY party.
Like the article says, it might do him more harm than good.
Over the thirty-plus years, nearly forty years, of the Charter, the Notwithstanding Clause has proven to be problematic. Sadly, what it would take to repeal it is another constitutional convention--and since Meech Lake failed, and Charlottetown failed, I don't see another constitutional convention in our future. So, we're stuck with it.
That being said, the consensus among the constitutional scholars with whom I have spoken, is that invoking the Notwithstanding Clause is political suicide. Canadians don't like their Charter rights to be abrogated by Charter s. 33. Mr. Ford may be playing with fire here; and in doing so, he may just have lost the next Ontario election.
Over the thirty-plus years, nearly forty years, of the Charter, the Notwithstanding Clause has proven to be problematic. Sadly, what it would take to repeal it is another constitutional convention--and since Meech Lake failed, and Charlottetown failed, I don't see another constitutional convention in our future. So, we're stuck with it.
That being said, the consensus among the constitutional scholars with whom I have spoken, is that invoking the Notwithstanding Clause is political suicide. Canadians don't like their Charter rights to be abrogated by Charter s. 33. Mr. Ford may be playing with fire here; and in doing so, he may just have lost the next Ontario election.
Chevy; that's my hope that the past use of it as seen by the majority as being some sort of end-run around our constitutional provisions akin to "it's my ball and if I can't be the pitcher . . . " sort of thing.
I'm hoping that Ford's propensity towards that autocrat within comes him a cropper.
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