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Originally Posted by Frank MetaMusil
I guess my point was, the government just easily crammed this garbage through into law without any pushback.
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Yeah, well this tends to be a common thing with governments these days. I don't know if this was done as part of an omnibus bill or if it was done as its own bill but I'd be curious to know what the vote breakdown was on 1st, 2nd reading, etc.
I'm always astounded when governments enact these types of laws that are just ripe for Charter challenges. Have they just received poor counsel or did they ignore their lawyers and just hope for the best? It's not even a party-specific thing either as all of them seem to do it. The Harper Conservatives had a tremendously poor record on Charter challenges.