Conservatives clarify opposition to Quebec’s Bill 21 following vote for notwithstanding clause | 24CA News
The federal Conservatives try to reassure the World Sikh Organization of Canada that the celebration stays against Quebec’s secularism legislation after its MPs voted in help of a provision the province used to make it into legislation.
On Monday the Conservatives voted en masse in favour of a Bloc Quebecois movement recognizing that provinces have a “legitimate right” to make use of the however clause, together with pre-emptively.
In a letter to the Sikh affiliation Tuesday, Deputy Conservative Leader Tim Uppal says the Liberals try to spin a story that the Conservatives explicitly help the “pre-emptive use” of the clause.
That’s when a province invokes the clause to stop anybody from launching a Charter of Rights and Freedoms authorized problem in courtroom.
Uppal says the supply is a “long-standing part” of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the flexibility of provinces to make use of it’s “the legal reality.”
But he says Leader Pierre Poilievre has been clear he’s in opposition to the Quebec legislation which bans some public servants from sporting non secular symbols at work.
