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This is what he means every time he says "small government." Him and his cronies in charge of everything. And this is just another attempt to normalize this disgusting centralization of power, in direct contradiction to everything Canada stands for.
Fuck off, Pierre, and take your increasingly fascist party with you.
Promising to use the notwithstanding clause means the laws they intend to pass will fail to pass a charter challenge. That should alarm anyone.
If they were to do this, the law would only stand for 5 years before being subject to challenge again, and inevitably it will fail (which is why they used notwithstanding), and the people who were harmed by the government's use of notwithstanding will sue the government for the violation of their rights and they will win.
We only need to look at Ontario and how it went with Ford's use.
They can't challenge if it they just use it again.
If the cons take power, it will remain in place until they are out of power. I imagine the opposing parties would have immediately revoking it, be a part of their platform, so we wouldn't need to wait through the end of the 5 year period.
Th argument for notwithstanding was that it would be used in matters of extreme importance, and in a thoughtful and limited way.
Now it’s being wielded by the right to push policy that feels good to vengeful idiots with no consideration if it would lead to good outcomes. And because Notwithstanding now framed as a left/right matter it will be impossible to get rid of.
So now we’re in a situation where in each election from now until the end of time, we have to convince a clickbait-hungry media and a population distracted by slogans and shiny objects that boring nerdy shit like notwithstanding is something that they must pay attention to.
This fucking sucks.
This isn't even borrowed from the yanks, look back at shit the Tories said during the Harper years, it's literally exactly the same rhetoric, there's a clip on CBC from years ago with Pierre talking about the Omar Khadr supreme court ruling and dude was saying shit like "this is a matter for the democratically elected government, not the courts".
While I get the overlap, we shouldn't downplay our own shit, we've been perfectly capable of having a christofacist party on our own, and exporting it globally (Gaven McInnes - Canadian, worked with the rebel, Jordan Peterson, Harper has been involved with the IDU, Preston Manning's takeover of the Conservatives was cited as an inspiration for Nigel Farage)
They want the authority to decide what appropriate sentencing is for serious offenses with the promise to put criminals behind bars for their entire lives. And they also want to be able to decide what constitutes a serious offense. Can’t see anything wrong with that.
They have it already, is what's wrong with it. This is a dog whistle saying they want to forego due process.
They only used the notwithstanding clause to harm trans kids in Saskatchewan…
CANADA DOESN'T NEED A SMALL ~pp~
Or a big one