Notwithstanding clause won't stop court challenges of Alberta trans laws, groups say

Doctors and 2SLGBTQ+ advocacy groups challenging Alberta laws affecting transgender people say they aren't backing down, ...
The Canadian Press on MSN

Alberta looks to use notwithstanding clause on its 3 transgender laws: memo

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's office has directed officials to invoke the Charter's notwithstanding clause in amending ...
The Canadian Press on MSN

Fraser says request for limits on notwithstanding clause not just about Quebec

The federal government’s request to Canada’s top court for limits on the notwithstanding clause isn’t only about Quebec’s ...

Ottawa calls on Supreme Court to clarify the law around use of Charter’s notwithstanding clause

Filing propels Ottawa towards a clash with the provinces, including Quebec, Ontario and Alberta, on core Constitutional ...

Kerry Sun: Carney invites the Supreme Court to rewrite the Constitution — at democracy's peril

The Charter's notwithstanding clause exists to keep judges from usurping elected legislators. The feds want to take that away ...
The Canadian Press on MSN

Court challenges to Alberta transgender laws to continue despite government plan

One of the LGBTQ+ advocacy groups challenging Alberta's government in court over its laws affecting transgender people says ...
Cantech Letter

STATEMENT – CMA calls on Alberta government to refrain from using notwithstanding clause to interfere with patient care

The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) calls on the Alberta government to refrain from invoking the notwithstanding clause to enact legislation that ...

Ottawa and the provinces prepare to battle in constitutional combat over notwithstanding clause

With a short, 20-odd page Supreme Court submission on Wednesday, the federal government struck a match and threw it onto a ...
World Socialist Web Site

Ontario invokes anti-democratic “notwithstanding clause” to override court ruling

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced Monday that he will use the “notwithstanding clause” to override a court ruling that his government’s hurriedly-enacted Better Local Government Act (Bill 5) ...
The Canadian Press on MSN

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 override the ...
World Socialist Web Site

Sharp lurch of official Canadian politics to the right expressed in increasing use of anti-democratic “notwithstanding clause”

The Bloc Québécois (BQ) took advantage of a recent “opposition day” in the federal parliament to table a motion calling on the House of Commons to “remind the [Justin Trudeau-led Liberal] government ...
The Canadian Press on MSN

Notwithstanding clause won't stop court challenges of Alberta trans laws: groups

Doctors and LGBTQ+ advocacy groups challenging Alberta laws affecting transgender people say they aren't backing down after ...