An independent review of the “secret law” police used to detain hundreds of people during last summer's G20 summit is no substitute for a public inquiry, critics charge.
While Nathalie Des Rosiers, general counsel for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, welcomed the province's appointment of former Ontario chief justice Roy McMurtry to probe the controversial 1939 Public Works Protection Act, she said “it does not change the need for a public inquiry.”
“We will continue to push the federal government for a full public inquiry,” Des Rosiers said in an interview from Ottawa Wednesday.
“They threw the party, they should pay for the broken glasses,” she said, urging Queen's Park to “exert some pressure on the federal government to stop this wall of silence” about the security at the June 26-27 summit of world leaders.
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