Cabinet ministers were presented with an ever-expanding menu of options to help resolve the growing protests blockading Ottawa streets and border crossings across the country last winter, the government's deputy secretary on emergency preparedness told a federal inquiry Friday.
Jacqueline Bogden told the Public Order Emergency Commission, which is scrutinizing the events and advice that led to the Liberals' mid-February decision to invoke the Emergencies Act, that the public service was trying to anticipate any questions politicians might have about those options.
"It wasn't perfect, but it was there to kind of stimulate conversation on the range of options within federal jurisdiction of things that ministers and departments might be able to think about," Bogden testified Friday. Deputy ministers across departments were tasked on Feb. 9 with brainstorming more options within the federal jurisdiction to stop the protests.
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