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Toronto-area drivers stopped by OPP will have to give breath sample (www.cbc.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

This will eventually be challenged and halted under the Charter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Good news!

Speaking this week to a conference of the Canadian Police Association, Poilievre hinted at using the notwithstanding clause to implement criminal justice reforms on parole eligibility, concurrent sentencing and bail.

"We will make them constitutional, using whatever tools the Constitution allows me to use to make them constitutional. I think you know exactly what I mean," Poilievre told the crowd.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/historic-potential-notwithstanding-federal-use-1.7193180

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Alberta's been doing this since 2018. It's fine under the charter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yep. First time they force a lawyer