Feds Weighing Possible Options Against Ontario Government’s Use of Notwithstanding Clause: Trudeau

The federal government is weighing possible courses of action it can take against the Ontario government’s use of the notwithstanding clause to prevent 55,000 provincial education workers from striking, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
He briefly made the comment in French to reporters on Parliament Hill on Nov. 2, one day after he said that “using the notwithstanding clause to suspend workers’ rights is wrong.”
“Suspensions of people’s rights is something you should only do in the most exceptional circumstances, and I really hope that all politicians call out the overuse of the notwithstanding clause to suspend people’s rights and freedoms,” he told reporters on Nov. 1….