Trudeau testified there was a disconnect between what his team and he himself were seeing and what the Ottawa police were telling them.
Previously in the commission, RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki testified after weeks of work the OPP, RCMP and Ottawa Police had come together with a proposal to end the protests.Article content
Blockades in Windsor, Ont., and Coutts, Alta., were being wrapped up when Trudeau invoked the act, but he said they had heard many of those things before and he was concerned that without the act they would flare up again. Trudeau delivered one of the most detailed legal explanations as to why his cabinet thought it met the threshold to invoke the act, although his government still refuses to make public a key internal legal interpretation on the topic.Article content
He argued the Emergencies Act allows cabinet to determine if there is that threat based on “multiple inputs” such as the RCMP, government officials and ministers, and not just CSIS.Article content “If I had been convinced that other orders of government, or any other law in Canada was sufficient to deal with this emergency, then we wouldn’t have met the threshold” to invoke the act, Trudeau said.Article content
“The events of the first weekend caught police by surprise. By the second weekend, it was apparent that the police were unable to end it. It was still not taken care of after the third weekend, with current tools and resources. That’s when the Prime Minister and Cabinet felt it was the right moment,” reads the statement.Article content
Readouts from various calls between Trudeau and Ottawa MPs show he was under pressure from his own caucus to put an end to the capital’s “occupation.”Article content
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