Does the Notwithstanding clause turn off rights protected by the Charter? Does it preserve those rights by requiring courts to stay silent while legislatures alone interpret their bounds? Or are courts always available to provide a remedy? This episode features political science professor Geoffrey Sigalet and lawyer Eric Mendelsohn.<\/p>\n

For further reading, take a look at the following articles:<\/p>\n

Gr\u00e9goire Webber, Eric Mendelsohn\u00a0& Robert Leckey\u00a0 “The faulty received wisdom around the notwithstanding clause<\/a>” (Policy Options, 2019)<\/li>\n
Maxime St-Hilaire and Xavier Foccroulle M\u00e9nard, “Nothing to Declare: A Response to Gr\u00e9goire Webber, Eric Mendelsohn, Robert Leckey, and L\u00e9onid Sirota on the Effects of the Notwithstanding Clause<\/a>” (Constitutional Forum, 2020)<\/li>\n
Gr\u00e9goire Webber, \u201c Notwithstanding rights, review, or remedy? On the notwithstanding clause and the operation of legislation<\/a>\u201d (University of Toronto Law Journal, 2021)<\/li>\n
Robert Leckey & Eric Mendelsohn, \u201c The Notwithstanding Clause: Legislatures, Courts, and the Electorate<\/a>\u201d ( University of Toronto Law Journal,\u00a0\u00a0 2022)<\/li>\n
Geoffrey Sigalet, “The Truck and the Brakes: Understanding the Charter’s Limitations and Notwithstanding Clauses Symmetrically<\/a>” (Supreme Court Law Review, 2022)<\/li>\n
Gr\u00e9goire Webber, \u201c The notwithstanding clause, the operation of legislation, and judicial review<\/a>\u201d (Queen’s University Legal Research Paper, 2022)<\/li>\n
Geoffrey Sigalet, \u201c Legislated Rights as Trumps: Why the Notwithstanding Clause Overrides Judicial Review<\/a>\u201d (Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 2023)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
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