News Analysis Questions regarding how the Liberal government decided to use the Emergencies Act deserve answers, says a Canadian law professor, who hopes that legal action and public pressure will bring disclosure. In an interview with The Epoch Times, Ryan Alford, a law professor at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., said the requests for judicial review currently in the works are attempts worth making on such a serious issue. “When people are challenging the Emergencies Act, they’re asking whether or not the government did the most cynical and unconstitutional thing imaginable, namely, to expand their own powers unconstitutionally on a pretext,” Alford said. “It’s on everyone’s mind: Did the federal government unconstitutionally expand its powers pursuant to the Emergencies Act, such that not only did they take actions that were bad policy or repressive or even infringing of the charter, but unconstitutional on their face as an expansion of …