Tag: notwithstanding clause
over 1 year ago
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Justin Trudeau thinks public pressure will save health care. He forgets how shameless the provinc...

Provinces will be held to account on how they’re spending extra health dollars because they are going to have to be m...

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almost 2 years ago
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Opinion | Behind closed doors, insiders say Doug Ford smartened up when labour leaders warned him...

Ford acknowledged he’d been badly outmanoeuvred after trying so clumsily to outsmart all those education workers, Mar...

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almost 3 years ago
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Justin Trudeau says he is staying out of the fight over Quebec’s Bill 21 — for now

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he won’t immediately intervene in Quebec’s debate over Bill 21 because he doesn’t ...

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over 3 years ago
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Doug Ford’s Tories poised to use their majority to ram through law targeting campaign spending

Unions and other third-party political action committees will be limited to spending $600,000 on election advertising...

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over 3 years ago
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Opinion | Yes, Virginia, there is a notwithstanding clause

Notwithstanding. What a magic word. Now I too can use the notwithstanding clause against my irritants. We all can. No...

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over 3 years ago
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Opinion | By suspending our Charter rights, Doug Ford is suspending good judgment

Doug Ford is making history by becoming the first Ontario premier to override and suspend the democratic protections ...

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over 3 years ago
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Unions warn they ‘will not be muted’ as Premier Doug Ford invokes notwithstanding clause to limit...

As Ford weaponizes the Constitution’s “notwithstanding” clause for the first time in Ontario history, unions warn the...

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