In 1999 , the former Singaporean President Devan Nair , who was living in Canada , remarked in an interview with the Toronto `` The Globe and Mail '' that Lee 's technique of suing his opponents into bankruptcy or oblivion was an abrogation of political rights .
Devan Nair , the third President of Singapore and who was living in exile in Canada , remarked in a 1999 interview with the Toronto `` The Globe and Mail '' that Lee 's technique of suing his opponents into bankruptcy or oblivion was an abrogation of political rights .