Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) praises Premier of Saskatchewan Scott Moe for following through on his promise to use the Notwithstanding Clause to pass legislation to protect parents’ rights.

The Premier’s move comes on the heels of over 4,000 parents urging him in a petition created by CLC to make good on his promise to use every tool at his disposal, including the Notwithstanding Clause, to ensure that the province’s new pro-parental rights education policy is defended.

The new policy, released August 22, requires schools to obtain parental permission when children under age 16 wish to change their name or pronouns used in addressing them.

Jeff Gunnarson, CLC President, called it a “common-sense” policy that “recognizes what a majority of parents already know, namely that parents are the ones who have the best interests of their children at heart, and that parental authority must be respected.”