Alberta Government Invokes Notwithstanding Clause to Override Legal Challenges to Anti-Trans Legislation ⇥ cbc.ca

Jason Markusoff, CBC News:

This broad exemption from Charter rights, used sparingly in Alberta over the 43 years of the notwithstanding clause’s existence, is being invoked for the second, third and fourth time within a month, following Premier Danielle Smith’s wielding of it to end the teachers’ strike.

But Albertans can understand which Charter rights one of the laws the government’s restrictions on gender-affirming surgery and treatment for teens might have violated.

Albertans know because a Court of King’s Bench justice told us so in her ruling whose injunction blocked the ban from taking effect on gender dysphoric young people living in this province.

The shamelessness of this government is matched only by its viciousness. It is functionally treating its need for hostility against transgender people as a kind of emergency — during trans awareness week, no less.