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A slew of high-profile witnesses and a trove of government documents and correspondence that would normally be tightly sealed made the Public Order Emergency Commission “one of the most transparent inquiries ever in terms of the number of top executive decision-makers testifying while in office,” according to Ottawa human rights and constitutional lawyer Paul Champ.Enjoy unlimited website access and the digital newspaper.
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