Name: Lawyer Jeffrey Meyers on the not withstanding clause and the politics of NAFTA by Shane Woodford
Duration: 22 min 11 s
Description: Lawyer and constitutional expert Jeffrey Meyers discusses the threat by Ontario Premier Doug Ford to invoke the not withstanding clause. As well he touches on the politics of NAFTA. Meyers went to school in New York where he passed the BAR. After practicing in the States for a number of years he has since returned to Canada where he teaches at Thompson Rivers University.

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Lawyer and constitutional expert Jeffrey Meyers discusses the threat by Ontario Premier Doug Ford to invoke the not withstanding clause. As well he touches on the politics of NAFTA. Meyers went to school in New York where he passed the BAR. After practicing in the States for a number of years he has since returned to Canada where he teaches at Thompson Rivers University.

Lawyer Jeffrey Meyers on the not withstanding clause and the politics of NAFTA

Current freelance journalist in Denmark. Former News Director at CHNL Radio in Kamloops and host of Inside #bcpoli. Former journo at CKNW and CBC Vancouver.

Lawyer Jeffrey Meyers on the not withstanding clause and the politics of NAFTA

Shane Woodford

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