CANADA'S CHOICE 2025
Poilievre promises justice reform using notwithstanding clause, Carney talks defence
Apr 14, 2025 | 9:00 AM
Liberal Leader Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre are both campaigning in Montreal today and making announcements about defence procurement and justice reform.
Poilievre is vowing to use the notwithstanding clause to implement some of his crime agenda — something no federal government has ever done.
He says that “to bring justice back to the criminal justice system,” the Conservatives would reverse a Supreme Court decision that found it was unconstitutional to sentence people to consecutive life sentences.
Carney’s Liberals are promising to overhaul defence procurement with modernized rules and a new defence procurement agency.
