Poilievre hints at using notwithstanding clause to pass tough-on-crime laws

Poilievre hints at using notwithstanding clause to pass tough-on-crime laws

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.