David Krayden: Moe’s Proposal to Utilize Notwithstanding Clause Is Appropriate and Imperative
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He warned that it might come to this.
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The policy aims to enshrine parental rights in a school system that insists upon indoctrinating children into gender ideology and seeks to allow children under the age of 16 to make decisions about their gender and pronouns with parental consent or even knowledge.
Thank God there is at least one premier with the backbone and love of basic democratic rights to use this constitutional mechanism as it was intended: to block the authoritarian arm of the courts and federal government.
“Our government is extremely dismayed by the judicial overreach of the court blocking implementation of the Parental Inclusion and Consent Policy—a policy which has the strong support of a majority of Saskatchewan residents, in particular, Saskatchewan parents,” he said.
“Our government will take action to ensure the rights of Saskatchewan parents are protected and that this policy is implemented by recalling the Legislative Assembly and using the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian constitution to pass legislation to protect parental rights.”
Let me say it as directly and succinctly as possible: The rights of parents to raise their children and bring them up in the traditions, religion, and culture that they know has been sacrosanct—not only in democratic societies but across Western civilization—for millennia. There should be no formal or informal remonstrance against this principle from the federal government or teachers’ unions.
One of the first areas of people’s lives that totalitarian governments target is the eradication of parental authority and for the state to usurp parental rights. Nazi Germany had the Hitler Youth. The Soviet Union had the Young Pioneers. In both of these societies, the government encouraged children to spy upon their parents and to expose them if they strayed from any orthodoxy.
So what Moe is doing is both appropriate and absolutely necessary for the perpetuation and maintenance of freedom in Canada.
If Moe had any doubts about first proposing the legislation and now promising to invoke the notwithstanding clause, he need only have listened to the rhetoric of the Saskatchewan teachers’ union.
“The new parental inclusion and consent policies are dangerous and a threat to the safety and well-being of students.
“The Federation is calling on the government to reverse this policy decision and engage in meaningful consultation with its sector partners and expert teachers,” she said.
In an accompanying video, the president alleged that the legislation “not only handcuffs teachers’ ability to build trust, it also dangerously threatens the safety and well-being of Saskatchewan students.”
