The former minister under Brian Mulroney who oversaw the process to replace the War Measures Act with the Emergencies Act in 1988 says the Trudeau government should release the legal opinion it used to justify invoking the act last winter.
“I believe the government should release the legal opinion it relied on,” tweeted former defence minister Perrin Beatty on Feb. 22.
“How can you ask Canadians to obey the law when you won’t tell them what it is?”
The former Conservative minister, now president and CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, was reacting to a question from former diplomat and columnist Norman Spector, who remarked that Commissioner Paul Rouleau had not taken Beatty’s advice to release the legal opinion….