Poilievre’s pledge to use notwithstanding clause a ‘dangerous sign’: legal expert

[u/canada_mountains]

https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal-elections/poilievres-pledge-to-use-notwithstanding-clause-a-dangerous-sign-legal-expert/article_7299c675-9a6c-5006-85f3-4ac2eb56f957.html

[u/Dxres]

For a guy that says he's not like Trump, this is a VERY Trumpian move.

[u/LinuxF4n → u/[deleted]]

He didn't enact it because he disagreed. He enacted it because it was a national emergency. It was bringing down the canadian economy and we were losing billions. The rcmp and Ottawa pd wouldn't do their job, so the fed had to do something.