Well, they really went and did it. With countless very consequential fish already in the fryer, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Justice Minister Sean Fraser chucked in a whopper this week, asking the Supreme Court to revisit a landmark 1988 decision on how it interprets and adjudicates the notwithstanding clause — that’s Section 33 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which allows governments to ignore certain Charter rights for five-year periods.