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Podcast: The Andrew Lawton Show
Episode: Poilievre hints at using notwithstanding clause to pass tough-on-crime laws
Description: Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has vowed that his efforts to keep criminals behind bars will be constitutional, telling the Canadian Police Association he will “make them constitutional using whatever tools the constitution allows me to use to make them constitutional. I think you know exactly what I mean.” It looks like he’s teasing the first ever federal use of the Charter’s notwithstanding clause. True North’s Andrew Lawton weighs in on why that matters.Also, the capital gains tax hike proposed in the federal budget is the ‘final nail in the business investment coffin,’ one economic analy...