A judge has ruled a court challenge can proceed over the Saskatchewan government’s law requiring parental consent for children under 16 who want to change their names or pronouns at school.
The notwithstanding clause was guaranteed to result in a constitutional crisis eventually. Hopefully we can do away with it and any crap laws that came from it.
The crisis will be exactly what’s happening: Politicians using it to erode protections against marginalized groups. The fix is unknown, because it’s uncharted legal territory.
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The notwithstanding clause was guaranteed to result in a constitutional crisis eventually. Hopefully we can do away with it and any crap laws that came from it.
What would a constitutional crisis entail, and what would it take to get right of the notwithstanding clause?
The crisis will be exactly what’s happening: Politicians using it to erode protections against marginalized groups. The fix is unknown, because it’s uncharted legal territory.