Re:EU Commission Doesn't Understand What's Written in Its Ow...
by int_19h on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @07:07PM
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Canada has a clause in its Charter of Rights and Freedoms that literally allows the legislature of any province to pass laws in direct contradiction to most of the Charter - specifically, the sections on fundamental rights. They just have to explicitly point out which parts of the Charter they found inconvenient when invoking this clause. Quebec is notorious for abusing this power (mostly for its language laws), but other provinces have also found it useful on occasion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_33_of_the_Canadian_Cha...