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’An affront to all Canadians’

By Aaron Wherry

Over the course of two columns—here and here—Irwin Cotler lists 19 problems with C-38.

Thus while the bill itself is flawed in nearly every substantive particular, the process by which it has been pushed through — and the conventions that it thereby undermines — continues a standing assault on Parliament, a contempt for the institution, and indeed should be viewed as an affront to all Canadians.