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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 ...

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, ...
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Alberta to use notwithstanding clause on its three transgender laws: memo

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has directed officials to invoke the Charter's notwithstanding clause in amending ...

Alberta may invoke notwithstanding clause on transgender laws

A leaked government memo is raising concerns Alberta may invoke the notwithstanding clause to get around constitutional ...
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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 ...
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Fraser says request for limits on notwithstanding clause not just about Quebec

Fraser said he hopes the Supreme Court's eventual decision "will shape how both federal and provincial governments may use ...

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 ...

If the notwithstanding clause is the nuclear option, Ottawa should respond proportionately

Constitutional scholars concurred. It “will rarely be used,” predicted former Supreme Court justice Gérard La Forest. “The ...

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

The laws establish rules for students changing their names or pronouns in school, ban transgender girls from taking part in some sports and limit gender-affirming health care.

Josh Dehaas: Carney's move to limit notwithstanding clause is a threat to national unity

He's asked the Supreme Court to unilaterally amend the Constitution by banning repeated uses of the Charter override — which ...

Ottawa's request for limits on notwithstanding clause a 'direct attack' on Bill 21, Quebec says

Members of François Legault's Coalition Avenir Québec government weren't mincing their words Thursday when reacting to Ottawa ...