The debate prompted the Liberals and the NDP to team up to firmly denounce its use and the Conservatives to tiptoe around the issue.
Bloc leader Yves-Francois Blanchet chose to use his party’s opposition day motion on Thursday to push the idea “that it is solely up to Quebec and the provinces to decide on the use of the notwithstanding clause” — even going as far as comparing its pre-emptive use to a vaccine which would prevent courts of law from dictating to provinces what they can and cannot do.Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the National Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
Quebec has used it to restrict people wearing religious symbols from certain public sector jobs and to restrict the use of English in the public sphere; more recently, Ontario used it in a back-to-work bill meant to quash a labour strike but ultimately repealed the entire bill. “Let’s be clear: by pre-emptively invoking the notwithstanding clause, a government is saying that it knows it is violating Canadians’ fundamental rights and freedoms … but that it is going ahead anyway without giving the courts a chance to weigh in,” said Bendayan.Article content
Conservatives, on the other hand, did not directly address the core issue but rather chose to blame the Liberals for sowing division since they came to power and for being the root cause of why provinces have been feeling the need to invoke the notwithstanding clause.
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