Doug Ford’s use of the Charter’s notwithstanding clause poses the same threat to democracy as Justin Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act.
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The Canadian Union of Public Employees would then have appealed that decision and several years down the road there would have been a court ruling on whether the province was justified in doing what it did.Article content Ford’s pre-emptive back-to-work legislation was justified because of the public interest in keeping schools open.tap here to see other videos from our teamInvoking the notwithstanding clause, thus eliminating the union’s right to appeal its decision while schools remained open , was not.
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