"However, he said his one regret as leader of the Opposition was giving Pierre Trudeau the benefit of the doubt over the invocation of the War Measures Act. Stanfield later admitted he wished he had dissented, instead of supporting a policy he said encouraged “confrontation, escalation and disillusionment.” “I think things could have been quieted down with less drastic measures,” he told Maclean’s in 1972."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-ivison-lessons-from-his-father-we-need-more-than-trudeaus-word-on-emergencies-act

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