1. The notwithstanding clause: A legislative weapon?
... allow the law to be enacted and practiced. If legislature chooses to bypass the process of limitation, and instead uses the notwithstanding clause, the law will only be enacted for five years, as per the sunset clause of section 33, which states that legislation passed by the notwithstanding clause can be practiced for a maximum of ... five years, at which point it must be reenacted . Professor Lorraine Weinrib states that the political attention that the use of the notwithstanding clause will generate may cause a newly elected government ... not to re-enact the law. The use of the not...
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