.IvisonJ: The Emergencies Act report lets the Liberals slip off the hook via nationalpost
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The situation could have been avoided were it not for policing failures in response to the Freedom Convoy that saw the protest spin out of control, and a “failure of federalism” that resulted in a lack of co-operation and collaboration between different levels of government.Article content The commissioner also urges the government to delete the definition of “threat to the security of Canada” in the Emergencies Act that links to the CSIS Act. This is key to whether the government met the threshold needed to invoke the Emergencies Act.
This explicit link is why many people believed the Trudeau government had overreached — even CSIS said it did not see a threat to the security of Canada As such, he said he believes the definition of a threat to the security of Canada was met. He argued the CSIS Act and the Emergencies Act may contain the same language but they serve different purposes and involve different decision-makers.
Ottawa Police Service leadership was not party to Project Hendon, a joint intelligence project led by the Ontario Provincial Police, that suggested protesters had no exit strategy and that hundreds of vehicles were involved, including individuals with fringe views.Article content
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