Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Watchdog blasts security at Toronto G20 summit

TORONTO (Reuters) – Special security powers secretly given to Canadian police for last summer's G20 summit in Toronto were probably illegal and unconstitutional, a provincial government watchdog said on Tuesday.
Police conducted hundreds of arbitrary arrests and unreasonable searches under the temporary provincial regulation, which established a security zone around the meeting of world leaders in downtown Toronto in June, Ontario's ombudsman, Andre Marin, said.
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