Sorry, not Canadian but I want to confirm: The Notwithstanding Clause allows provincial legislatures to specifically violate the constitution and prevent courts from reviewing the matter?
Is the only recourse to wait, unelect the provincial legislators responsible, and then undo it?
I’ve never known of this until now and am completely shocked this exists as a real legal mechanism…
It allows the violation of certain individual clauses of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, not the entire Constitution, and its effect lapses after five years if whatever chucklefucks are in office at the provincial level at that time don’t care enough to reconfirm the violation. Not that that’s much better.
Sorry, not Canadian but I want to confirm: The Notwithstanding Clause allows provincial legislatures to specifically violate the constitution and prevent courts from reviewing the matter?
Is the only recourse to wait, unelect the provincial legislators responsible, and then undo it?
I’ve never known of this until now and am completely shocked this exists as a real legal mechanism…
It allows the violation of certain individual clauses of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, not the entire Constitution, and its effect lapses after five years if whatever chucklefucks are in office at the provincial level at that time don’t care enough to reconfirm the violation. Not that that’s much better.
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