> 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 tha

> 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).