In a court filing, lawyers for Ford and Sylvia Jones have argued the summons breaches their parliamentary privilege by attempting to compel the pair to testify
The Public Order Emergency Commission summoned Ford and then-solicitor general Sylvia Jones last week to testify at the inquiry, which is examining the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act to end the so-called Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa and Windsor, Ont., last winter.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“Second, being required to testify before a commission of inquiry does not constitute irreparable harm,” the commissioner wrote. The commission will hear evidence at the public inquiry until Nov. 25 and must file a report with recommendations by Feb. 20, 2023. By mid-September, the lawyers said it would be important to interview Ford, especially given what it had uncovered by then. It had found through interviews that the province had declined to meet with the mayor of Ottawa and the federal government in an effort to figure out how to end the convoy’s occupation of the nation’s capital for weeks.Article content
Throughout the lead up to the start of the inquiry, the province’s lawyers denied the commission’s repeated attempts to interview Ford.
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