Translation of "Passer outre à tous les traités " (French → English) :

go over the head of one's superiors

flout the law [ flaunt the law ]

Senator Mitchell: It is one thing to say you consulted and another thing to overrule whatever you heard.

Senator Lynch-Staunton: In a case like that, where the province might come and disturb the agreement, are provinces consulted ahead of time before the treaty is finalized and the wording of it is completed, or is this just wishful thinking or hoping that the provinces will not, once a treaty goes into effect, skewer this particular clause by imposing a tax?

16. Stresses that the EP Temporary Committee conducting the investigation which underpinned its resolutions of 14 February 2007 and 19 February 2009 exposed how the procedures for authorisation and control of civilian aircraft overflying airspace or landing in their territory were extremely flawed, thus not only lending themselves to being abused in the CIA’s ‘extraordinary renditions’, but also to being easily evaded by any operators of organised crime, including terrorist networks; also recalls the Community’s competence in the field of transport security and safety and Parliament’s recommendation to the Commission to regulate and mon ...[+++]itor the management of EU airspace, airports and non-commercial aviation; calls on the EU and its Member States, therefore no longer to delay a thorough review of their implementation of the Convention on International Civil Aviation (the Chicago Convention) as regards authorisation and inspections of civilian aircraft overflying airspace or landing in their territory, in order to ensure that security is enhanced and checks are systematically exercised, requiring anticipated identification of passengers and crews, and ensuring that any flights classified as ‘state flights’ (which are excluded from the scope of the Convention) are given prior and proper authorisation; recalls also Parliament’s recommendation that the Tokyo Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft be effectively enforced by Member States;

Therefore, under our Constitution not any other constitution if we want to override the charter and the section 15 equality rights, if we want to override the decisions in eight jurisdictions, if we want to override the fact that thousands of couples have already married under the Supreme Court of Canada's decision and acquired constitutional protection, then the only remedy to override it is the use of the notwithstanding clause.