MISC presents a panel discussion amongst some leading experts and commentators who have contributed to a new and important volume, collection The Notwithstanding Clause and the Canadian Charter: Rights, Reforms and Controversies (McGill-Queen’s University Press). Edited by Peter Biro, the collection examines the NWC from all angles, considering who should have the last word on matters of rights and justice – the legislatures or the unelected judiciary – and what balance liberal democracy requires.