Tory government using ‘authoritarian tactics’ to push through Wheat Board, long-gun registry bills, says Mendes
'With the Wheat Board it’s farmers. With their Reform Party roots you would think they were in favour of going back to the grassroots to seek their opinions, but suddenly with a majority government all that has disappeared,' says University of Ottawa professor Errol Mendes.
PARLIAMENT HILL—The Conservative government is using “authoritarian tactics” by overriding existing laws to deliver on longstanding promises to the Conservative Party’s base in Western Canada, a leading expert in constitutional law says.
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