Eleven intervenors approved in Sask. pronoun law appeal case
Eleven parties have been approved to intervene in the provincial government’s appeal of a Court of King’s Bench decision on its controversial pronoun law.
In February, a judge allowed the case against the pronoun law to continue despite the government putting the policy into law and invoking the notwithstanding clause. Government lawyers tried to argue the court no longer had jurisdiction because of the use of the clause.
The provincial government is now appealing that decision, and 12 applications had been put in for intervenor status.
Eleven of those applications were approved: