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Legislation invoking the clause has been enacted only five times across all of Canada. In one of those cases no rights were suspended and invoking it was unnece

by 542458 5y ago

Legislation invoking the clause has been enacted only five times across all of Canada. In one of those cases no rights were suspended and invoking it was unnecessary. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_33_of_the_Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_33_of_the_Canadian_C... I would count 4 invocations that actually did something (all of which were limited to single provinces) across the past 40 years to be fairly rare.

sudosysgen 5y ago
Actually, the first invocation was an "Omnibus" invocation, which contained around a dozen separate invocations in itself. Beyond that, no, even 4 invocations isn't small at all. A single invocation is potentially devastating. It's been completely normalized in Quebec, for example.