On the matter of judicial interventions or perhaps the judicial having too much authority, may I have a reaction to the concept that the courts in our country are essentially doing what Parliament has asked them to do when it established in the early 1980s the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and expected the courts, right up to the Supreme Court, to interpret these, and kept the ability to have the final say with the notwithstanding clause.
I heard comments that indeed we have judicial activism here and they're taking over the authority of Parliament. My sense is that as a legislator I don't feel threatened by the courts, knowing that if the courts do something that as a legislator I could not support, I have the ability to invoke the notwithstanding clause. Would you have some reactions to that view of the judicial versus the legislature?