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Globe editorial: The Emergencies Act has a test of necessity, not of convenience
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The Emergencies Act has a test of necessity, not of convenience

to the commission, made public this week, which argues for wide latitude in determining what constitutes a national security threat.

The Ottawa police say that all three police forces had signed off on the plan as of Feb. 13, ahead of meetings of the Incident Response Group and later, of the full cabinet. However, Commissioner Lucki did not share that plan in either meeting. Yet Mr. Trudeau also conceded he had not actually read the plan. And Commissioner Lucki had advised Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino’s chief of staff in an email sent just ahead of the cabinet meeting that not “all available tools” under existing law had been exhausted.

Why does any of this matter? That police had a list of tow truck companies, that the PM did not leaf through the pages of a police plan – those might seem like picayune details.

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