OTTAWA—Two citizens calling for the courts to find the government’s prorogation of Parliament to be an unlawful decision are using a UK Supreme Court decision in their argument before a federal judge. In 2019, the UK’s Supreme Court found that country’s government had illegally prorogued Parliament.
David MacKinnon and Aris Lavranos, two Nova Scotia men, presented their case before a federal court on Feb. 13 against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Jan. 6 decision to ask the governor general to prorogue Parliament. Trudeau, who said said he would be resigning as prime minister after the Liberal Party had chosen a new leader, said he asking Parliament to be suspended due to a deadlock in proceedings with the opposition.
