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Legislation invoking the clause has been enacted only five times across all of Canada. In one of those cases no rights were suspended and invoking it was unnecessary.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_33_of_the_Canadian_C...

I would count 4 invocations that actually did something (all of which were limited to single provinces) across the past 40 years to be fairly rare.

[sudosysgen]

Actually, the first invocation was an "Omnibus" invocation, which contained around a dozen separate invocations in itself. Beyond that, no, even 4 invocations isn't small at all. A single invocation is potentially devastating. It's been completely normalized in Quebec, for example.