A Regina judge has ruled that the Saskatchewan government’s naming and pronoun policy should be paused for the time being, but Premier Scott Moe says he’ll use the notwithstanding clause to override it.

Moe, responding to today’s injunction issued by a Regina Court of King’s Bench Justice Michael Megaw, said he intends to recall the legislature Oct. 10 to “pass legislation to protect parents’ rights.”

“Our government is extremely dismayed by the judicial overreach of the court blocking implementation of the Parental Inclusion and Consent policy - a policy which has the strong support of a majority of Saskatchewan residents, in particular, Saskatchewan parents,” Moe said in a written statement Thursday afternoon. “The default position should never be to keep a child’s information from their parents.”

Last month, the province announced that all students under 16 needed parental consent to change their names or pronouns.

  • snoons@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    17
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    and an apathetic and disengaged voter base willing to look the other way.

    In my opinion, and personal experience, it also has a lot to do with not having enough time and energy to think about anything other then putting food on the table, or even where your next meal is coming from. Certainly there are people that just don’t give a fuck, but I think that would be the minority if more people weren’t living paycheque to paycheque.

    • frostbiker@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      In my opinion, and personal experience, it also has a lot to do with not having enough time and energy to think about anything other then putting food on the table

      On the other hand, let’s not pretend that we don’t all waste time on Kardashians, Lemmy and other inane activities. I think the bigger problem is that we are overwhelmed with information, much of it inconsequential stuff, and that detracts from our ability to focus on and prioritize important but difficult topics.

      • snoons@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        For me at that time, the “inane” activities were sleep, rarely I had time to go on my shitty computer some evenings.

    • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Not to be a dick, but do you watch television? A sports fan? Do you go out for entertainment, ever?

      You have time for what you make time for. I understand the grind is crippling but at the end of the day the onus is on us to be politically literate and vote. If you find excuses to not do that, of course the slime balls who are attracted to power will take advantage of that.

      • snoons@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        but do you watch television? A sports fan? Do you go out for entertainment, ever?

        At that time in my life, no, to all of those. I was literally almost homeless.