Promising to use the notwithstanding clause means the laws they intend to pass will fail to pass a charter challenge. That should alarm anyone.
If they were to do this, the law would only stand for 5 years before being subject to challenge again, and inevitably it will fail (which is why they used notwithstanding), and the people who were harmed by the government's use of notwithstanding will sue the government for the violation of their rights and they will win.
We only need to look at Ontario and how it went with Ford's use.
It sure does. All because our people don't really know their civics very well.
If we did, this shit wouldn't fly.