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June 11, 2021

After the Ontario Superior Court struck down limitations on 3rd party election spending as unconstitutional, the Premier of Ontario invoked a nuclear constitutional option: the notwithstanding clause. This clause is being used, in effect, to gag 3rd party voices and pre-election debate. Who are those voices? Click here for a list of 3rd parties and what they spent in the last (2018) provincial election.

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