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Legal experts decry retroactive Conservative law but say it can’t be stopped

By Bruce Cheadle Legal experts decry retroactive Conservative law but say it can’t be stopped Legal and parliamentary experts say there’s nothing to stop the Harper government from retroactively rewriting a law to absolve RCMP wrongdoing and stuffing the changes in an omnibus budget bill — even as police investigate. “There is no restraint on Parliament’s legislative powers other than legislative jurisdiction under the Constitution Act 1867 and the charter,” former House of Commons law clerk Rob Walsh said in an email Thursday. In simpler terms, “there’s nothing wrong with it,” according to Ned Franks, a professor emeritus at Queen’s… View Article