REGINA – Saskatchewan’s government is hoping the Supreme Court of Canada will quickly hear its appeal to a ruling on the province’s school pronoun law, citing the legal case as one of national importance.

The province is seeking leave to appeal after the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal ruled a challenge of the law, which prevents children under 16 from changing their names or pronouns at school without parental consent, can continue.

Premier Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party government had invoked the Charter’s notwithstanding clause in the law, a provision that overrides certain Charter rights for five years.

In the province’s application to the Supreme Court this month, it says the case raises questions over whether courts can review and make declarations that a law limits Charter rights wh

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