Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he wants to use the notwithstanding clause — which has never been used by a federal government before — to override the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to ...

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to use the notwithstanding clause to implement part of his tough-on-crime agenda, if his party is elected.

"Just generally that's a game-changer," he said. On Monday, Poilievre promised to use the notwithstanding clause to impose consecutive life sentences on multiple murderers. The Supreme Court of ...

which said consecutive periods of parole ineligibility "are intrinsically incompatible with human dignity because of their degrading nature." The notwithstanding clause, Section 33 of the Charter ...