10/3 podcast: What the Emergencies Act inquiry revealed about the police response to the Freedom Convoy Was the Freedom Convoy a threat to public safety when it occupied downtown Ottawa earlier this year? Was the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act justified? Did Ottawa drop the ...
Q:What is the purpose of this inquiry? A:The purpose of this inquiry is to numb investigation and to allow time for it to fall forever from the news agenda. Which is as it should be. It is the modern equivalent of those one-time superb political time-wasters: Royal Commissions. They...
An inquiry into the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act got a blaring introduction Friday to life in Ottawa during the “Freedom Convoy” protest as the deafening chorus of big-rig horns was played for the commission. The first witness, a legally blind resident of downtown...
OTTAWA — A few hours after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the history-making decision to invoke the Emergencies Act, his national security adviser reached out to the RCMP for a threat assessment of the protests that had blockaded downtown Ottawa
The central question facing the inquiry is whether Trudeau's government was justified in using the Emergencies Act to clear last winter's demonstrations. It's set to hear public testimony from witnesses until Nov. 25. --- And this too ... ...
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's national security adviser and other senior officials felt the Canadian Security Intelligence Service's threshold to determine a national threat under the Emergencies Act "should be reconsidered," a public inquiry has learned. Jody Thoma...
Former Chief Supt. Carson Pardy told the public inquiry examining the invocation of the act Friday that plans to clear the demonstrations were consistently delayed because of confusion and disorganization within the ranks of Ottawa police, and that the chief of police didn't ...
Regardless of what happens with the vote, there will be an inquiry to review its use. A report must be tabled in both the House of Commons and the Senate by next February. The Senate must also vote on the act’s use, but debate has not started yet in that chamber. ...
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The illegal occupation of Ottawa stole my mum from me, stole from me the last moments of my mother’s life. I am grateful that the federal government stepped in to end it when local and provincial authorities could not. Watch the Emergencies Act inquiry live: Advertisement 3 Story continues...