“Mr. Speaker, in terms of improving the bill, I wonder how the member feels about a proposal that the Conservatives, in fact, it was me, brought to the justice committee in response to the Senneville decision, in which the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the mandatory minimum sentences for accessing and possessing child pornography. Instead of going with the safety valve to potentially undermine mandatory minimum sentences, the Conservatives proposed the invocation of the notwithstanding clause to preserve the mandatory minimum sentences for accessing and possessing child pornography. I wonder if the member could comment on that.”
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Average 92 / 100
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Thanks 10%Claims 63%Procedure 19%Reasoning 8%
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Mr. Speaker, Thanks · 9 wordsI appreciate the member’s work on the justice committee.ThanksClaims · 18 wordsKerry Sun is a doctoral student at the University of Oxford and a member of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.1Procedure · 17 wordsI will just outline his words in the National Post on the purpose of the notwithstanding clause.ProcedureClaims · 39 wordsHe wrote that it “is a mechanism to prevent overreaching judicial interpretations of rights from undermining the common good.”2Chief Justice Wagner said that the decision could erode public confidence.3This would have been the opportunity to use it.Reasoning · 7 wordsWe feel it should have been used.
