OTTAWA — Federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser has ruled out using the notwithstanding clause to reverse a recent Supreme Court ruling throwing out mandatory minimum sentences for crimes involving child pornography.

“We don’t intend to override the Constitution to fix the problem. There (are) other solutions that are apparent to us, and we’re doing the policy exercise to find the right path right now to protect our kids,” Fraser told reporters in Ottawa on Tuesday.

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These were Fraser’s first public comments on Friday’s contentious 5-4 Supreme Court of Canada decision nullifying the one-year mandatory prison sentence for the possession and access of child sexual abuse images.

The court’s majority has been widely panned for, among other things, basing the decision on

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