Parliamentary committee hopes to lift PMO ‘veil’ shrouding the legal opinion behind Emergencies Act invocation

'The way in which Trudeau is concentrating his power and hiding behind the veil of his office would make Harper blush,' says NDP MP Matthew Green as Conservative MPs push for info hidden throughout the Rouleau inquiry.

Opposition members of Parliament’s Special Joint Committee on the Declaration of Emergency, including Conservative Glen Motz, left, and New Democrat Matthew Green, say the government should release the legal opinion behind invoking the Emergencies Act. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY STUART BENSON

December 7, 2022

As the public inquiry into the government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act wrapped up its final phase of hearings with a series of round-table discussions from policy experts last week, members of the parliamentary committee studying the emergency declaration hope to cr...

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