For all its flaws, our system of government passed a tough test with flying colours. Name another country that would have done as well.
A central theme of the trucker protesters was that freedom in Canada was imperilled, and they had to rise and defend it. And as the protesters plan an encore, you’ll hear this again and again. It was a hollow claim to begin with, but after the extraordinary appearance of the entire edifice of the Canadian government at theOttawa Citizen Headline NewsEmail AddressBy clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
We watched Prime Minister Justin Trudeau answer questions not only from commission lawyers, but endure grilling from partisans, including the very people who laid siege to the capital and blocked our borders. The convoy protesters talk about lack of freedom and yet, there their lawyers were, cross-examining Trudeau, his ministers and senior advisers on their decision-making. That’s freedom. If there is a freer country that will dare expose its government to such scrutiny, name it.
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Parliamentary committee hopes to lift PMO 'veil' shrouding the legal opinion behind Emergencies Act invocationAs the public inquiry into the government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act wrapped up its final phase of hearings with a series of round-table discussions from policy experts last week, members of the parliamentary committee studying the emergency declaration hope to crack open the “black box” of cabinet confidences and solicitor-client privileges that continues to obscure the government’s legal justification. Commissioner Paul Rouleau looks at Brendan Miller, counsel for Freedom Corp., during the Public Emergency Order Commission at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa on Nov. 24. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade On the final day of the Public Order Emergency Commission, lawyers representing the “Freedom Convoy” organizers won their bid to get access to unredacted versions of 20 documents, which Commissioner Paul Rouleau said the government had agreed to release. Convoy lawyer Brendan Miller, who had applied to have the documents unredacted, argued that the written notes and text messages belonging to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s (Papineau, Que.) staff should not be protected by parliamentary privilege. The addition of the newly unredacted documents will contribute to the “virtually unprecedented” levels of transparency Rouleau said had resulted from the production of more than 9,000 exhibits and 300 hours of testimony during the commission’s previous seven weeks of hearings. “I am satisfied that I now have the evidence that I need to make the factual findings and to answer the questions I have been mandated to ask, namely, why did the federal government declare the emergency, how did it use its powers, and were those actions appropriate?” Rouleau said in his closing statement on Nov. 25. “I am confident that I am now well-positioned to provide those answers.” However, the answer to the first question—on the legal justification the government used to invoke the Emergencies Act—could still be out of the commission’s reach. During his testimony be
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PARDY: Invoking the Emergencies Act was clear overreachIn late November, the Rouleau Commission reviewing the use of the Emergencies Act finished hearing testimony from witnesses.
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VEZINA: We need to fix how we handle national emergenciesRegardless of where the fault lies, it is clear there are serious flaws in how Canada handles national emergencies.
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BC’s new cabinet puts spotlight on housing, climate emergenciesCabinet shuffle sees demotion for finance minister who leaves a massive $5.7-billion surplus
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Adam Sandler Explains Why He Had To Fight For Brendan Fraser To Be Cast In ‘Airheads’Brendan Fraser and Adam Sandler have an epic 'Airheads' reunion for Variety's new Actors on Actors issue. The actors take a trip down memory lane, all the way back to the 90s when they first worked together on the 1994 comedy 'Airheads' where they played two band members who hijack a radio station out of desperation to…
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Adam Zivo: Doug Ford’s necessary cap on vampiric development feesYou know what actually isn’t fair? Yoking young people and immigrants with extortionate fees to finance lower taxes for better\u002Doff Canadians
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