The premier insists on playing up the federal government’s \u0027frontal attack\u0027 on Quebec to distract from his derogation of human rights
Like the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms contains a notwithstanding clause, which allows the province’s national assembly to adopt an act that expressly derogates from the rights protected by it.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Sovereigntist commentators have already concluded that the only way out is for Quebec to separate, and are pressing Legault to move in that direction. “Does Legault not see the limit of his acceptance of the Canadian framework? Does he remember that he was once an independentist?” wrote prominent columnist Mathieu Bock-Côté.Article content
It remains to be seen how Quebecers will react if the Supreme Court determines that bills 21 and 96 are unconstitutional. We may witness the kind of public outcry that followed the failure of the Meech Lake Accord. However, another scenario is possible. Two decades ago, the formidable Lucien Bouchard, then premier of Quebec, attempted to arouse his fellow citizens’ anger over the Clarity Act, to stoke separatist sentiments. He largely failed.
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