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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 14h

Oh - the Justice Minister just told the provinces to go pound sand:

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

#cdnpoli #abpoli #onpoli

Justice minister rules out withdrawing legal submission on notwithstanding clause | CBC News

Justice Minister Sean Fraser rejected calls from five premiers for Ottawa to withdraw its legal argument calling for limits on the use of the Constitution's notwithstanding clause.

www.cbc.ca

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 17h

Yes - it was definitely different (not absent, just different)

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 17h

To be fair, most Canadians are only peripherally aware of the Jim Crow era ... I wouldn't have made that connection.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 18h

Wow - talk about a straw man argument from top to bottom.

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Pat @pat112.bsky.social · 22h

If the Premiers were so certain of their position they would welcome Court , vs being petulant children saying if I can't win I'm taking my ball and leaving

#Cdnpoli

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 23h

Very …

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 23h

While I am no lawyer, much less one skilled enough to make constitutional arguments before the Supreme Court, I think the danger that an unbounded S33 represents warrants constraints. Otherwise provincial legislatures can essentially shred The Charter at whim.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 23h

I’ve spent some time writing in depth about the various filings on S33 here:

crystalgaze2.blogspot.com/2025/09/deep...

crystalgaze2.blogspot.com/2025/10/of-p...

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 23h

I see the premiers are reaching the “Find Out” phase after all their fuckery around using S33 to attack your Charter Rights.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

#cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg #onpoli

5 premiers urge Carney to withdraw court submission on notwithstanding clause | CBC News

Five premiers say Ottawa must withdraw its recent call for limits on the notwithstanding clause because it amounts to a "complete disavowal" of the bargain that spawned the Charter of Rights and Freed...

www.cbc.ca

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 1d

I think there's a good number of Albertans who would love to ... unfortunately, those same Albertans understand the importance of the rule of law.

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 2d

Eby - BC is leading 🇨🇦 with major opportunities to deliver prosperity to all of Canada.
We have billions worth of private sector & First Nations led projects, that are ready to go and will create thousands of jobs.
Alberta’s fictional bitumen pipeline achieves none of these things. #cdnpoli

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 1d

The irony that on one hand Moe and Smith are demanding greater autonomy and "freedom" from "overreach", but on the other hand demanding that other provinces simply accede to their overreach is stunning. The lack of self awareness is mind-boggling.

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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 1d

My colleague @drkristopherwells.bsky.social rose in the Senate today, to support my motion, asking the government to investigate the creation of a made-in-Canada verified traveller program for domestic frequent flyers - one not vulnerable to US anti-trans bigotry #SenateofCanada #cdnpoli #NEXUS

Sen. Kris Wells on why we need a made-in-Canada verified traveller program

YouTube video by Senator Paula Simons

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 1d

_Smith_ is complaining about the constitutionality of another Premier's actions, when she's working hard in Alberta to strip "undesirable" Albertans of their Charter Rights? FTB. 🤬

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 1d

Harper tried to "pick which First Nations groups to listen to" as well ... how did that work out for him?

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 1d

I expect that the judge is going to be relatively lenient on this one - because he doesn't want to give them cause to appeal.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 1d

With Trump, flattery is a useful tool - the clown is so vain that stroking his ego can be weaponized against him.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 1d

How many of those workers will be forced into bankruptcy before the government issues their backpay?

ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 1d

You and I can say that out loud ... I imagine that framing like this is more a matter of not getting disappeared by Trump's ICE the minute the reporter leaves the building ...

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 1d

Yet another case of the lunatic right corrupting an otherwise perfectly reasonable decision and turning it into an excuse to claim outrage.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 1d

Either a rare moment of self-awareness (unlikely), or a typical narcissist play to make everything about them.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck off - these clowns were all on board with Trump while he was attacking everyone else, now it affects them and _we’re_ the problem?

The answer here is “pay attention when someone from a minority says ‘this politician is bad news’” - because we know from experience.

ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 1d

It suspect that it’s basically a “faint hope” gambit - they’re trying to get a ruling that they can use as a wedge to dismantle the regulatory constraints that they face.

I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if the Alberta Govt is covertly funding this effort.

ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 1d

British voters put BoJo into 10 Downing, assume that there is no depth too low at this point.

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ShadowPages 🇨🇦 @shadowpages.bsky.social · 2d

It's almost like an unregulated free market tends to turn into a monopoly sooner or later.

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