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Better Local Government Act, 2018

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42nd Parliament, 1st session (2018–21) · Sponsored by Steve Clark · Introduced July 30, 2018

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Hon. Steve ClarkProgressive Conservative Party of Ontario · Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes

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Ford Government's Use of the Notwithstanding ClauseDoug Ford's government has invoked or threatened the notwithstanding clause three times — more than any Ontario premier in history. In 2018, Ford threatened to override a court ruling that his mid-election Toronto council cuts were unconstitutional. In 2021, he pre-emptively buried an election advertising law inside Section 33 to shield it from Charter challenge. In 2022, he used the clause against 55,000 education workers before a single strike vote was held — the first time any Canadian government had invoked Section 33 against labour rights. Workers struck anyway. Ford backed down in four days. The clause is meant to be a mechanism of last resort for democratically exceptional circumstances. Ford has treated it as a first-response tool for policy he expects courts to reject.
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