Need an Expert? Convoy: Invoking the Emergencies Act

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Nomi Claire Lazar (English only)

Full Professor, Public and International Affairs, Faculty of Social Sciences, and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.

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Professor Lazar is author of States of Emergency in Liberal Democracy ; her Twitter thread on why the Emergencies Act could be deployed.


Ferry de Kerckhove (English, French)

Senior fellow, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Ferry de Kerckhove can provide contextual analysis of the use of Emergencies Act, including Pierre Trudeau’s invoking of the War Measures Act in 1970 in comparison to current Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s potential use of the Emergency Act.
 


Errol Mendes (English only)

Full professor, Faculty of Law - Common Law Section

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Professor Mendes can provide analysis/comment on the following themes:

  • Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  • Constitution
  • Constitutional law

Democracy and democratization