Fraser says request for limits on notwithstanding clause not just about Quebec

Chris Selley: A constitutional crisis? Sure, why not? We've got nothing else going on

Well, they really went and did it. With countless very consequential fish already in the fryer, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Justice Minister Sean Fraser chucked in a whopper this week, asking the Supreme Court to revisit a landmark 1988 decision on how it interprets and adjudicates the notwithstanding clause — that’s Section 33 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which allows governments to ignore certain Charter rights for five-year perio…

Ottawa and the provinces prepare to battle in constitutional combat over notwithstanding clause

The federal government struck a match and threw it onto a pile of Constitutional gasoline that was growing for years and primed to blow.

Alberta’s Smith ‘Extremely Disappointed’ By Ottawa’s Attempt to Restrict Provincial Use of Notwithstanding Clause

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is describing Ottawa’s bid to limit provincial use of the notwithstanding clause as a risk to “national unity.” Smith spoke out on Sept. 18 against the federal government’s asking the Supreme Court of Canada to set limits on the manner in which provinces can use the notwithstanding clause, which is part of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Federal Justice Minister and Attorney General Sean Fraser announced on Sep…

Fraser says request for limits on notwithstanding clause not just about Quebec

Justice Minister Sean Fraser says the government’s request to Canada’s top court to set limits on the notwithstanding clause isn’t only about Quebec’s secularism law.