"[Ombudsman André Marin stated,] 'The ministry simply handed over to the Toronto Police Service inordinate powers, without any efforts made to ensure those powers would not be misunderstood,'."
Full article: Ombudsman charges G20 secret law was ‘illegal’.
Toronto has been shamed before the world, but it is the federal government who made the original mistake in holding the G20 meeting in the heart of Canada's biggest city. Following from that we have seen a sort of chain reaction of foul-ups, big and small, including making use of a 1939 law (the Public Works Protection Act) in a totally inappropriate way.
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