The director of Canada’s spy agency advised Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to invoke the Emergencies Act to end last winter’s convoy protests, despite the fact that the blockades did not meet the definition of a national security threat outlined in the sweeping legislation.
The Public Order Emergency Commission, led by Justice Paul Rouleau, is studying whether that legal threshold to invoke the act was met. Mr. Trudeau made the emergency declaration on Feb. 14 in response to anti-government, anti-vaccine protests in downtown Ottawa Mr. Vigneault said the protests did not meet the definition of “threats to the security of Canada” contained in the CSIS Act. However, he said he received a “legal interpretation” from the federal justice department that while the Emergencies Act references the CSIS Act definition of “threats to the security of Canada” the term has a broader meaning under the Emergencies Act than the CSIS Act.
What a difference a week makes.
Advised Trudeau to break the law so without the HOC consent or through a democratic debate. The law was broken to suit Trudeau.
So he's going to be the fall guy?
RobertFife Yet another Liberal partisan clown.
Brian Fox
RobertFife I would have asked how the CSIS director came to this determination regarding the need for the EA, when CSIS, RCMP, OPP, & OPS intel had no such determination? Did he base his opinion on CBC's intel that there was foreign state backing for the convoy?
And CSIS also said there was no threat... is the director going to the fall guy?
What a fuckin hero.
“Based on …unspecified information shared with Mr. Vigneault at the cabinet table…” Translation: Trudeau was begging/threatening him.
He should resign then, since CSIS also said there was no threat or danger.
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