While the brainwashed masses in the deranged dominion are distracted by the firing of Jimmy Kimmel…
National Post- Carney invites the Supreme Court to rewrite the Constitution — at democracy’s peril
The Charter’s notwithstanding clause exists to keep judges from usurping elected legislators. The feds want to take that away
National Post- Ottawa and the provinces prepare to battle in constitutional combat over notwithstanding clause
With a short, 20-odd page Supreme Court submission on Wednesday, the federal government struck a match and threw it onto a pile of Constitutional gasoline that was growing for years and primed to blow.
I wonder if this is pre-emptive and the next step will be to recind the legislation regarding separation? Can’t have those western serfs getting too upitty, can we?
lol whut ‘gets’ me is the notion that any serious move to divorce, is somehow premised on getting perrrrrrMISSion from some handful of Liberals.
no no no. ya do it like kaybek planned to when they narrowly missed in ’95.
(to use the french tq) ‘faite accompli’ style. aint dat right Monsieur Parizeau ???
do what the ribbit ribbit people do, do it ‘whatever works’ but get the blazes out before Canaduh BANKRUPTS you.
idjits.
I didn’t say it was legal, or moral, or going to happen that way, but yes. I do think that the Gliberals will presume that they need to be consulted and agree before the peons (aka us) will be “allowed” to decide for ourselves.
Yeah kritter, that’s like a battered wife needing permission from her abusive husband to escape to a women’s shelter.
As I said earlier. A bunch of failed lawyers that will write in provisions will also erase them. The entire federal government is corrupt beyond repair. It operates just like its CCP masters in Peking.
So if you remove that section of the charter which was created to get the provinces support what keeps the country together after that?
“…what keeps the country together after that?”
Graft and corruption, I expect. That’s what keeps it together now.
That’s what unites the Liberal Party, alright.
Good bye Alberta, goodbye Saskatchewan, goodbye rural British Columbia, goodbye rural Manitoba. Canada is now broken up into a number of smaller, more manageable areas. Best of British luck to you in the future. I’ll be with you as soon as I can.
The Liberals want absolute power, they can’t stand the idea that they don’t have it.
My impression is, they don’t particularly care about Quebec using the notwithstanding clause, they just want it gone before Alberta gets a chance to use it.
Exactly.
They are opposed to anyone other than quebec using it
Every time I think Canadians have lost every possible right or freedom…it gets worse.
I hope the SCOC approves of this.
Yes, it could be dicey for awhile, but it’ll all come out in the wash.
Ring around the collar?
Remember Louis Riel?
Alberta- we’ll take CFB Cold Lake
Quebec- we got Bagotville
Carney’s left with an anxious USA order for 100 F-35s
I think there’s a good chance that in the days after a successful separation referendum result for AB, the USA will recognize it and send 100 F-35’s north for flying exercises.
We’ll know it’s in the cards when the corrupt federal #Libranos issue an order for the current group of CF-18’s to be flown eastward in the middle of the night just prior to referendum day.
Well I guess what that might mean is that in cases where a provincial government might have invoked the Notwithstanding Clause, any directives from the feds or the courts will simply have to be ignored,.
Shrug. There isn’t a judge or political leader in Canada who doesn’t know this: the overwhelming majority of our electorate has absolutely no thoughts or cares about rights and freedoms. And a very small chunk of the remainder have enough concern and courage to speak out against the diminishment of our liberty.