Notley says Smith being insincere with gender identity policies
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Summary
In the wake of the Supreme Court of Canada's ruling on the use of the Not Withstanding Clause in Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms by conservative governments across the country, the question of what the federal government should do about it arises.
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We are here in Ottawa. The federal government here has expressed a very
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vehement opposition as well to what's happening and said they're looking at a
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broad range of options. The premier had left open the door to invoking the
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notwithstanding clause in order to get this this kind of stuff passed if it's
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the form of it that takes legislation. She wouldn't be the first premier to do
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that. Saskatchewan's premier did the same on gender identity policy back in the
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in the fall I believe. Do you think the federal government needs to look at a
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way of dealing with that? Well I think I certainly would. I mean let me start
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with the fact that I'm very troubled by with it by the recent frequency with
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which conservative governments across this country are invoking the not
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withstanding clause in order to avoid providing and security securing the
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charter rights and freedoms that their citizens otherwise deserve. It seems to
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me that conservatives and particularly extremist right-wing conservatives don't
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care about our charter of rights and freedoms don't care about the human rights
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of Canadians and so that is a threat because of course we know the not
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withstanding clause was never designed to be used as casually and as
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conservative governments are currently using it primarily conservative
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governments and so there that is a problem. Now the way in which it can be
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fixed is complicated and and and challenging because of course we have an
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amending formula and I'm not sure that one can change that without access without
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using the amending formula and we all know that that is very challenging right
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now so so I'm not sure I'd be interested to hear what tools are in the federal
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government's toolbox or whether the courts themselves can can can can weigh in on
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on on on the application and the scope of the notwithstanding clauses use but we do