The Saskatchewan government suspended the rights of transgender children when it imposed its pronoun rule on schools and then prevented legal challenges.
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Last fall the Saskatchewan Party called the legislature back for an emergency session to take aim at a minority within a minority — transgender kids. The emergency was the government’s insistence to quickly pass Bill 137, the so-called Pronoun Bill or Parental Rights Bill.
The effect of Bill 137 was to remove the rights and freedoms of trans students — rights they are entitled to under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code. The government made sure the students had no recourse to even ask why.
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All discussion was shut down because the government used the ‘nuclear option’ that is the notwithstanding clause. Once the notwithstanding clause is invoked, that is the end of the discussion and there is no need to explain.
It is an extremely alarming, undemocratic and brutal track to take and, to think, it’s used on children!
Rights and freedoms that so many have fought and died........