Several environmental groups have launched a constitutional challenge seeking to kill an Ontario law that allows cabinet to suspend other laws.
Wildlands League, Environmental Defence Canada, Friends of the Earth Canada and Democracy Watch allege Ontario’s special economic zone law wrongly abdicates power from the legislature and gives it to cabinet, thereby violating the Constitution.
Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government passed Bill 5, which included the special economic zone provision, last year.
The provision allows cabinet and the environment minister to suspend any and all provincial and municipal laws within such zones as they see fit.
Has the nws clause ever been used for anything good?
I suspect that Quebec would have quit Canada decades ago if they hadn’t been able to implement their language laws.
I’d argue that keeping the country together is a good outcome. It’d be nice if it could have been achieved without making the Charter of Rights and Freedoms optional.