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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-08T17:29:44.000Z",
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    "Canada",
    "HellsBelle",
    "8 comments",
    "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-government-bill-5-legal-challenge-9.7156329"
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  "textContent": "submitted by HellsBelle to canada\n30 points | 8 comments\nhttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-government-bill-5-legal-challenge-9.7156329\n\nSeveral environmental groups have launched a constitutional challenge seeking to kill an Ontario law that allows cabinet to suspend other laws.\n\nWildlands League, Environmental Defence Canada, Friends of the Earth Canada and Democracy Watch allege Ontario’s special economic zone law wrongly abdicates power from the legislature and gives it to cabinet, thereby violating the Constitution.\n\nDoug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government passed Bill 5, which included the special economic zone provision, last year.\n\nThe provision allows cabinet and the environment minister to suspend any and all provincial and municipal laws within such zones as they see fit.",
  "title": "Ford government's 'special economic zones' law facing constitutional challenge"
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