1. The notwithstanding clause: A legislative weapon?
... or freedoms, or if a law is too far removed from the Charter's normative structure, the courts will nullify the legislation as a denial of the Constitutional guarantees. Janet Hiebert, of McGill University, states that an advantage of judicial review is that it maintains the value system of the Constitution: The democratic tension posed by judicial review, which is generally assumed to be ... ...
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