Every series needs a closer, and we saved a heavy hitter for ours. Earlier this year, the landmark Bill 21 case reached the Supreme Court of Canada, a challenge that turns on the scope of the notwithstanding clause. As we await the Court’s judgement, the final episode of Normalizing the Override, our series on Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, steps back to explore Québec’s history with federalism and its relationship to the Charter’s most controversial section.

Host Carter Wynne is joined by Daniel Béland, Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada at McGill University. Béland is also a James McGill Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University. As a leading scholar of public policy and political sociology, his research spans social policy, federalism, institutionalism, and Canadian politics. He has published more than 25 books and over 220 peer-reviewed articles, and his work has been cited more than 18,000 times. He holds a PhD in Political Sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and held a Tier 1 Research Chair at the University of Saskatchewan before joining McGill University in 2019.

Associated with The Bell, The Bellwether is a podcast hosted and produced by students of the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University.

Host: Carter Wynne

Producer: Carter Wynne

Editor-in-Chief: Kimberley Moriarity

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