Ottawa’s bid to curb the province’s use of the notwithstanding clause is “way overreach,” warns Premier Doug Ford.

Ford, the first Ontario premier to ever employ the Constitution’s nuclear option to override the courts , railed against federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser’s request to the Supreme Court of Canada to limit its use to protect Charter rights .

“It’s way overreach with the courts. Again, Parliament — federal Parliament, provincial Parliament — they’re supreme because the people are supreme, not judges ruling on stuff that shouldn’t even be in front of the courts,” he said Thursday in Vaughan.

“I’ve got an idea, why doesn’t the minister actually go forward and start focusing on bail reform? Why doesn’t he start focusing on mandatory sentencing? What doesn’t he focus on th

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