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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre wants to use the rarely-used clause to allow harsher sentences for mass murderers. His opponents disagree You can save this article by registering for free here.

MONTREAL — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to use the notwithstanding clause to impose consecutive life sentences for multiple murders — a pledge one constitutional expert calls "a ...

MONTREAL - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to use the notwithstanding clause to impose consecutive life sentences for multiple murders — a pledge one constitutional expert ...

Rightly or wrongly, a lot of Canadians — including conservatives — are skittish about the notwithstanding clause ...

To get around that, Poilievre said he would use the notwithstanding clause, which allows the government to override some Charter rights for a limited time. No federal government has ever used the ...

“A sentence of imprisonment for life without ... be free within a relatively short period of time. The notwithstanding clause permits Parliament or provincial legislatures to temporarily declare ...