Canada and the United States and University of Ottawa Professor Errol Mendes

University of Ottawa professor Errol Mendes: University of Ottawa professor Errol Mendes says that, since the referendum in Crimea will take place while Russian troops control the region, few countries, including Canada and the United States, will view the referendum results as legitimate, according to CTV. "Essentially, it is a referendum under the force of military power," Mendes told 's Canada AM on Thursday and A referendum that will ask people living in Ukraine's Crimea region whether they want to join the Russian Federation is "way outside the parameters of legitimacy," according to a leading Canadian authority on international and constitutional law. He says it also violates the Charter of the United Nations. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.