From: nickodell49@yahoo.ca   
      
   On 24 Oct 2025 04:28:29 -0300, Mike Spencer   
    wrote:   
      
   >   
   >Nick Odell  writes:   
   >   
   >> Hi! Forgive me, a noisy Brit, just barging in here unannounced and   
   >> please redirect me to a more appropriate place if this isn't the right   
   >> forum for my question.   
   >>   
   >> What is the "notwithstanding clause" in Canadian law? I see it being   
   >> invoked in Alberta and in Quebec for what appear to me to be   
   >> completely different reasons but I'm not really clear about what   
   >> exactly is being invoked and why.   
   >   
   >Hi Nick.  Fancy find you here!   
      
   Mike! My dear friend. Lovely to see you again. And thanks for the   
   clear explanation. Six-year-old is definitely my level and I thank you   
   for it. (The Wiki article also manages to keep it simple without   
   talking down to the reader - thanks)   
   >   
   >> Could somebody please point me to an explanation - preferably   
   >> something written for a six-year-old. I feel a lot like a six-year-old   
   >> these days.   
   >   
   >The six-year-old's summary is that Parliament or provincial   
   >legislatures can pass laws that contravene some provisions of the   
   >Charter of Rights & Freedoms (part of the Constitution Act, 1982) if   
   >they explicitly assert that they are intentionally doing so, such   
   >provisions of the Charter notwithstanding.   
   >   
   >More detail, unsuitable for six-year-olds, is here.   
   >   
   >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_33_of_the_Canadian_Charte   
   _of_Rights_and_Freedoms   
   >   
   >Nice to hear from you, even in this venue chiefly populated by   
   >crackpots.  Don't recall seeing you on uk.r.s recently.   
      
   I'm mostly lurking these days because I don't often find conversations   
   I want to join. Though I did stick my oar in the other during a   
   discussion about Canadian Folk Music.[1] Come to think of it, I don't   
   often see you there either...   
      
   >   
   >> I'm not trying to get into the particular issues of Alberta or Quebec   
   >> - just to understand generally how this sleight-of-hand trick works.   
   >> It is a sleight-of-hand trick, isn't it? Or have I got that wrong too?   
      
      
   Nick   
   [1]I just love the whole Canadian attitude to folk and country music -   
   and not only since I've become a regular visitor now my son has gained   
   Canadian citizenship and is raising his family there.   
      
   Back in the lockdown days of the pandemic, I was locked down for eight   
   months in Argentina. Okay, so compared with many others, our lockdown   
   wasn't compounded by tragedy and I was locked down with the very   
   person I would have hoped to be locked down with but it was still a   
   lockdown.   
      
   Then I discovered that the people of St Johns NL had decided to hold   
   their regular Folk Festival on line. Every week they broadcast an hour   
   or two on their YouTube channel. It was a real focal point in my week   
   and I still feel grateful for a couple of hours each week of   
   normality.   
      
   But how could such a tiny city as St Johns have so many, so talented   
   musicians, singers and dancers? I guess because the music is infused   
   right through the community and I love it all the more for that.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)