The NWS clause is a vital part of our democracy...those who fear its implementation when thought necessary by an elected government responsible to the citizenry, are merely indicating their distrust of of that democracy's vitality....

the big questions of how we want to live as citizens within a nation should be faced head on by accountable legislatures, not, as is becoming the norm, assumed to be inevitably resolvable only at the Supreme Court, subsequently allowing for the collective sigh of relief which diffusion of accountability allows for...

The Supreme Court was never envisioned in this country to house the most powerful 9  individuals in the land....ex SCC Justice Louise Arbour wrote that Canada’s political parties “have been impoverished by the rise of judicial prominence”.....I believe that to be a bad thing. 

Use of the NWS clause when thought warranted reminds the population that civic engagement is a duty...not a task that can or should be contracted out.