Send us a text What happens when one vote decides an election and that vote never makes it to the ballot box? Gavin and Stephen dive deep into a razor-thin electoral result in Terrebonne, Quebec, where a federal seat was won by a single vote. But here's the twist: a mail-in ballot that could have tied the race was rejected due to a postal code error, an error made not by the voter, but by an Elections Canada official. Drawing on their own high-profile experience in the Opitz...
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Send us a text What happens when one vote decides an election and that vote never makes it to the ballot box? Gavin and Stephen dive deep into a razor-thin electoral result in Terrebonne, Quebec, where a federal seat was won by a single vote. But here's the twist: a mail-in ballot that could have tied the race was rejected due to a postal code error, an error made not by the voter, but by an Elections Canada official. Drawing on their own high-profile experience in the Opitz...
What are Canada's NOTWITHSTANDING Clause Limitations?
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What are Canada's NOTWITHSTANDING Clause Limitations?
Send us a text Who gets the last word in Canada’s democracy: judges or elected lawmakers? Gavin Tighe and Stephen Thiele unpack the politics and law of the notwithstanding clause, tracing its 1982 origins as a grand bargain that paired constitutional rights with parliamentary supremacy and a five year sunset. Using Quebec’s secularism law as a live test case, they explain why some rights like voting cannot be overridden and how current fights over bike lanes and speed cameras pull...
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Send us a text What happens when one vote decides an election and that vote never makes it to the ballot box? Gavin and Stephen dive deep into a razor-thin electoral result in Terrebonne, Quebec, where a federal seat was won by a single vote. But here's the twist: a mail-in ballot that could have tied the race was rejected due to a postal code error, an error made not by the voter, but by an Elections Canada official. Drawing on their own high-profile experience in the Opitz...
