EXPLAINER: Election finance law, the notwithstanding clause and third party ads

How the coming days and months could play out

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For the first time in provincial history, Premier DOUG FORD will invoke the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause which allows provinces to override Charter rights, in order to bypass a Superior Court ruling that struck down his government’s restrictions on third-party election ad spen…