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OTTAWA — There should be no new limits on the use of the notwithstanding clause even if a “tyrant” could one day take power and use it to run roughshod on fundamental rights, the Quebec government told Canada’s top court amid a challenge to Quebec’s secularism law. “It is not the role of the court to decide a political question that is not justiciable,” lawyer Isabelle Brunet, who represents Quebec’s attorney general, told the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) in French on Tuesday. On the second of four days of hearings, proponents of Quebec’s controversial secularism law — colloquially...