"Illegal" and "likely unconstitutional"

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It was "illegal" and "likely unconstitutional" for Premier Dalton McGuinty’s government to pass a secret regulation that police used to detain people near Toronto’s G20 summit of world leaders last summer, says Ombudsman Andre Marin.

In a scorching 125-page report entitled Caught in the Act, Marin said the measure "should never have been enacted” and “was almost certainly beyond the authority of the government to enact."

"Responsible protesters and civil rights groups who took the trouble to educate themselves about their rights had no way of knowing they were walking into a trap – they were literally caught in the Act; the Public Works Protection Act and its pernicious regulatory offspring," he told reporters.

— "Ombudsman charges G20 secret law was ‘illegal’", The Toronto Star