If ever there was a court ruling calling for the use of the notwithstanding clause, it’s the debacle issued by the court last Friday. And yet the Carney Liberals are saying they won’t overturn that politically motivated and poorly thought out decision.

Justice Minister Sean Fraser was asked about using Sec. 33 of the Charter to overrule the court several times on Tuesday and said no, he won’t do it.

In a shocking 5-4 decision last week, the majority on the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that a mandatory minimum sentence of one year for possessing child pornography was cruel and unusual punishment and a violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. They did so, not by ruling on the case before them but inventing a new possible case to arrive at their politically motivated conclusion.

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