Lawyers frustrated by Ottawa's disclosure of documents at Emergencies Act inquiry cdnpoli
Thousands of pages of documents have been submitted into evidence at the Public Order Emergency Commission, which is scrutinizing the decision to invoke emergency powers in response to protests against COVID-19 mandates that blockaded Ottawa streets and several border crossings.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“We were getting extremely late disclosure of documents. We didn’t even have most of the documents. We weren’t getting witness statements, and we were going in kind of blind about what the theory of the case was, and what the evidence was going to be.” On Tuesday, Rouleau cautioned that with three more federal ministers set to testify Wednesday, the short amount of time lawyers will have to examine documents will be “brutal.”Article content
But she said the process has been “hampered” by a lack of additional disclosure and the tight timeline the inquiry has to conduct its work. Brendan Miller, a lawyer for “Freedom Convoy” organizers, was asked to leave the inquiry room after a testy exchange with Rouleau on Tuesday during Mendicino’s testimony. He later apologized and was allowed to return.
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