Section 33: Parliament or the legislature of a province may expressly declare in an Act…that the Act or provision thereof shall operate notwithstanding a provision included in section two or sections seven to 15 of this Charter. Ontario premier Doug Ford’s promise to invoke the

[Introductory note: In 1929, the “Famous Five” feminist activists (Henrietta Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy,and Irene Parlby) argued in the Supreme Court of Canada that women were “persons,” as the Canadian constitution puts it, qualified to sit in the country’

My daily work includes writing a book on judicial notice, the doctrine whereby courts and administrative tribunals accept certain matters as “factual” (because they’re notorious or subject to ready verification) although they are not put forward according to the rules of evidence. Cou