<p data-async="">Anthony Housefather is a Montreal Liberal MP of unusually courageous and actually-liberal character. A couple of days ago he issued an electioneering tweet about the Conservative proposal to <a data-evt-val="{&quot;control_fields&quot;: {&quot;mparticle&quot;: {&quot;keys&quot;: {&quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;click_source_type&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;anchor_text&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;target_url&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;layout_section&quot;}, &quot;mp_event_type&quot;: &quot;Navigation&quot;, &quot;extra_keys&quot;: [&quot;click_vertical_position_percentage&quot;, &quot;click_vertical_position_pixels&quot;]}}, &quot;click_source_type&quot;: &quot;in-page link&quot;, &quot;anchor_text&quot;: &quot;invoke the Charter of Rights\u2019 notwithstanding clause&quot;, &quot;target_url&quot;: &quot;https://x.com/AHousefather/status/1911946757795176770&quot;, &quot;layout_section&quot;: &quot;in-page-link&quot;}" data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://x.com/AHousefather/status/1911946757795176770">invoke the Charter of Rights’ notwithstanding clause</a> in order to legislate unconditional life sentences for multiple murderers:</p>

The point of the Charter was to forbid state torture — not to substitute the moral instincts of judges for those of parliamentarians{ai:summary}<p>Montreal Liberal MP Anthony Housefather criticized the Conservative proposal to use the Charter of Rights' notwithstanding clause for imposing unconditional life sentences on multiple murderers. His stance highlights a commitment to liberal values amidst election campaigning. #politics</p>

Colby Cosh: It's not 'cruel and unusual' to keep multi-murderers in jail for life

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