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>"Our Charter provides us with ..." Our Charter of Rights and Freedoms provides us nothing as at any point federal or provincial government can say fuck you an
by FpUser 4y ago
>"Our Charter provides us with ..."
Our Charter of Rights and Freedoms provides us nothing as at any point federal or provincial government can say fuck you and we will do as we please using that infamous notwithstanding clause. Examples of this already exist. Look at Ford or Legault for example. I think this notwithstanding clause is our disgrace and makes a mockery of our rights.
- mullingitover 4y ago> Our Charter of Rights and Freedoms provides us nothing as at any point federal or provincial government can say fuck you and we will do as we please using that infamous notwithstanding clause. Honestly the same paradigm exists in the US. As long as one branch of federal government can get another to agree to a Constitution-violating law or policy, the protections in the Constitution carry as much weight as a travel brochure. Similar shenanigans apply with regard to state and federal law conflicts. For example, for better or for worse, state level legalization of cannabis flies in the face of the Supremacy Clause, but that gets overlooked because the laws are something the federal government tacitly approves of (but can't get its act together to give formal blessing).
- FpUser 4y ago>"Honestly the same paradigm exists in the US" I am in Canada. The fact that it screwed up in the US does not make me feel any better. For what it worth I still think that basic freedoms protections are still better in the US.
- 908B64B197 4y agoWhy not simply get a constitution, by the people for the people, unanimously signed by every Province/State?
- FpUser 4y agoWhy don't we all sing kumbaya and be friends.