Notwithstanding Clause is back like the seasonal flu
It's back. Like the seasonal flu, Quebec's nationalist politicians are talking about using the Notwithstanding Clause to suspend minority rights in the province. Over thirty years ago, thatâs exactly what Liberal Robert Bourassa did to protect the commercial signage provisions of Bill 101 banning English from public view. Only after five long ânotwithstandingâ years did Claude Ryan give English people in Quebec his little illiberal Christmas lump of coal: a two-thirds French, one third English sign law backed up by tongue troopers with rulers. Partly because we all glaze over w...
Source: thesuburban.com