Prof. Errol Mendes at the Bill C-20 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) Committee

On April 30th, 2008. See this statement in context.

April 30th, 2008 / 4:40 p.m.

Professor, Constitutional and International Law, University of Ottawa, As an Individual

When I appeared before the Senate on what was then Bill S-4, I basically said that the two bills have to be considered together because they're part of a plan by the present government to amend the Constitution by--and I'm going to use a word that I refrained from using--stealth.

You cannot amend the Constitution of Canada by stealth. The two statutes put together are an attempt to amend the Constitution by stealth.

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