We need a Team Canada approach to safeguarding our vital interests during the Trump presidency

We should not undermine our Charter of Rights and Freedoms by the increasingly excessive use of the notwithstanding clause against the society’s most vulnerable, unless we are willing to nurture our own versions of a northern autocracy that will destroy our democratic foundations.
Donald Trump
If Donald Trump's autocratic dismissal of migrants' human rights is to rescind the Safe Third Country Agreement, and if this results in mass movements of migrants to Canada, the result is likely to be grave internal political and social instability, writes Errol Mendes.

It is not a democracy if there are some who are above the law, or if the most important areas of justice are determined by those with power and money, if minorities and the most vulnerable are trampled upon by the majority. The foundations of the most important constitutio...

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