Stopping by to make a quick public service announcement...
I think that Canadians need to get very quickly educated on how much of the Charter that they take for granted is not the constitutional law that they want to think it is.
Simple majority government legislation can infringe / ignore all of the following:
There is no Charter re-write required to render Canada unrecognizable for 5-year chunks at a time.
The advocates and political types who are attempting to loudly declare that section 33 of the Charter was never meant to be used pre-emptively, or to look for ways to invent new legal arguments to curtail its use that are plainly not there, are doing a major disservice to their own interests (because people who believe them may be comforted to not worry about voting for a government planning to use it widely).
What Canadians need to understand before electing any government is that massive swaths of their Charter rights absolutely can be
lawfully deleted limited essentially only by the feelings of shame that might hold a majority government back on some issues (and the aforementioned 5 years at a time limit).
As the federal Leader of the Opposition recently started foreshadowing his intent to pre-emptively invoke the notwithstanding clause as Prime Minister, all kinds of people were beside themselves at the thought of such an 'unprecedented' move...but the Supreme Court of Canada has already long ago ruled on the legality of such conduct. Citizens who do not want that to be done need to not elect governments who will do it (because they can and will).
https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sj...ity%20rights).