"As Canadian lawyers mobilize at airports across the country to support travellers [sic] affected by President Donald Trump's U.S. travel ban, the federal government is trying to determine if enforcing the controversial executive order on Canadian soil is even legal."
And those lawyers appear to be working pro bono, too.
But what would one expect when a country tries to apply its brand-new-and-untested laws on the soil of a different country?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
And those lawyers appear to be working pro bono, too.
But what would one expect when a country tries to apply its brand-new-and-untested laws on the soil of a different country?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012