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This is the petition about the HoC not letting Alberta use the Notwithstanding clause to deny health care and gender affirmative care to gender-diverse and transgender people.

Note: as an official H0C petition, this one will send a confirmation e-mail before your vote is tallied.

Petition text is:

Petition to the Minister of Health

Whereas:

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms exists to protect individuals and minority communities from discriminatory laws;

Recent legislation enacted by the Governments of Alberta and Saskatchewan restricts the rights, dignity, and safety of transgender and gender-diverse people, particularly children and youth, including access to gender-affirming and medically appropriate health care;

These provincial governments have invoked the notwithstanding clause to shield such legislation from judicial review, thereby preventing Charter challenges from being meaningfully heard;

The Constitution Act, 1867 provides the federal government, through section 90, with the authority to disallow certain provincial legislation in order to protect constitutional principles and minority rights; and

The use of extraordinary constitutional powers to limit Charter protections warrants careful federal review and response.