Episode 2: Ontario's Recent Interest in Section 33
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Episode 2: Ontario's Recent Interest in Section 33
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After ignoring the notwithstanding clause for nearly forty years, the Ontario government has recently changed tack, starting with its (successful) attempt to restructure Toronto City Council during a municipal election in 2018. Although a Court of Appeal decision rendered the invocation of section 33 unnecessary in that instance, the Ford government's readiness to hit the notwithstanding button was the beginning of a (now) clear attitudinal shift. Subsequent years brought two actual invocations -- one of which was withdrawn after intense public backlash -- and, more recently, murmurings about the possibility of a fresh invocation to shore up governmental powers to clear homeless encampments. For a survey of these developments and the constitutional questions they raise, we talked to two Ontario-based lawyers: Marion Sandilands (Conway Litigation) and Kris Kinsinger (SV Law).