Hours after Quebec’s highest court upheld his state secularism law, Premier François Legault was triumphant.
The decision was “a great victory for the nation of Quebec,“ he said in a brief statement to reporters on Feb. 29. And he would not shy away from using the Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ notwithstanding clause—which he now prefers to call the ”parliamentary sovereignty clause"—to ensure Canada respects the choices of Quebecers, he promised.