Canadian Territory Dept: The cabinet is assembling a bundle of options to be announced within weeks, aimed at preventing more shiploads of migrants from coming here, according to The Star. Sources say a few around the cabinet table suggested invoking the Constitution s notwithstanding clause to override the Charter, so officials would have more leeway to deal with large groups of suspicious migrants and oTTAWA Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says the federal government does not need to override Charter rights in its efforts to stop ships full of illegal migrants from reaching Canadian shores. The courts say the full range of Charter rights and protections apply to foreigners anywhere in Canadian territory, regardless of who they are or how they arrived. As
reported in the news.
@t illegal migrants, charter rights
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