Die CAQ missbraucht die Abweichungsklausel: Quebec Bar
https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/the-caq-is-abusing-the-notwithstanding-clause-quebec-bar/
Die CAQ missbraucht die Abweichungsklausel: Quebec Bar
https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/the-caq-is-abusing-the-notwithstanding-clause-quebec-bar/
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I keep seeing this argument that “it was always an agreed upon precedent that it should be rarely used”. The fact is this is a part of our constitution and nowhere does it say it is to be seldom used.
The veto is an election after five years at most, and governments have been re-elected after extensive use of the clause.
Isn’t the clause typically used to step on rights for minority populations? ( English speakers in Quebec, trans people in Alberta) Not surprising that a majority of voters don’t care enough to make this an election issue, might as well rename it to the tyranny of the majority clause
The constitution is pretty clear in how it works and Québec is using it as intended. If you wish to change it, there is a clear process to do so. It’s not abuse, it’s how it’s supposed to work.
Abuse would be more like negotiating in secret and backstabbing all of Québec by forcing a constitution down our throat that we never agreed to. Nobody in Québec ever consented to the current Canadian constitution and I would qualify that as abuse.
But nobody is abusing a constitution in how it’s been designed.
The Quebec bar is abusing it’s mandate. It should be protecting the public from lawyers, not protecting constitutionnal lawyers paychecks.