Lawmakers are returned to Ontario's legislature on Tuesday after taking a break in mid-September. Premier Doug Ford was a no-show during question period.
Premier Doug Ford was a no-show during question period.Last week, Ford told reporters he had not been asked to appear the inquiry.
However, lawyers for the commission say the premier and former Solicitor General Sylvia Jones refused repeated requests to appear voluntarily before they issued summons. The inquiry is examining the federal government’s decision to invoke the Emergency Act three weeks into a protest that occupied downtown Ottawa and shut down a Windsor border crossing.
On Tuesday, Government House Leader Paul Calandra says the matter is a policing one, the province has supplied documents to the Public Order Emergency Commission and two senior bureaucrats are set to testify.Ctrl+Enter