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Jamie Sarkonak: The activists clamouring for us to be ruled by a woke juristocracy

Interest groups have been asking the Supreme Court to consider race, international law in notwithstanding clause case

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The Supreme Court held hearings last week regarding Bill 21 — Quebec’s secularism law, which prohibits religious dress and symbols from the province’s public-sector workplaces. The ban flouts the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but Quebec, so far, has gotten around that by invoking Section 33, the constitutional override known as the notwithstanding clause.

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Section 33 was Quebec’s last secure line of defence against cultural annihilation. Indeed, it’s a release valve for any province where the morality of the courts has become detached from that of the people. If you take it away, judges become the highest authority in Canada — which is why legal activists intervening in the case have been trying to convince the Supreme Court to do that all week.

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