The federal government is pushing back in an escalating fight over the use of the notwithstanding clause, which allows ...

Less than a year later, a leaked provincial memo reveals that Smith's office has directed officials to prepare legislation that invokes the notwithstanding clause to override rights in the three ...

Archbishop Lépine said the proposal by Quebec Premier François Legault to end prayer in public places goes squarely against the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Archbishop Christian Lépine of ...

Both provinces say the notwithstanding clause, Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, was fundamental to the negotiation of the 1982 Constitution and preserves the sovereignty of ...

The more the public perceives that judging is finger-in-the-wind preaching, the less legitimate the Charter will appear ...

The Charter of Rights and Freedoms was a mistake. It should have never become part of the Constitution. The most dire predictions of what it would mean for Canada, the wholesale transfer of ...