The notwithstanding clause plus other letters, May 17: ‘Pierre Poilievre’s rumination on this topic should be … compared to the naked declarations of Donald Trump’

The notwithstanding clause plus other letters, May 17: ‘Pierre Poilievre’s rumination on this topic should be … compared to the naked declarations of Donald Trump’: We aren’t governed by kings and princes with soldiers to protect their safety and security. We have vulnerable fellow citizens volunteering their time and effort on our behalf.

Getting our party leaders to behave better would be nice, but even if that happened it wouldn’t solve the problem.RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme wonders whether the Criminal Code should be amended to address vicious personal verbal attacks on politicians. Under the code, uttering threats and criminal harassment are already crimes, regardless of who the victims are.

Mr. Poilievre might, for example, protect a law prohibiting bail for anyone charged with the killing of a police officer. As we have seen with comments from Doug Ford and former Toronto mayor John Tory, this is an emotional issue and easy populist touchstone. I would sometimes mutter to myself a vague wish that the notwithstanding clause be invoked to stifle these attacks. But only briefly and self-indulgently.

By all means, leave the notwithstanding clause as a tool for politicians to use – but only after they have gone to the people with a referendum, whereby they would require 65-per-cent approval from a minimum of 65 per cent of the electorate.He was excited about the implementation of the Charter because it was broad and subject to judicial interpretation, making the prospect of his tenure at the Supreme Court both interesting and important.

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