Ontario Premier Doug Ford and a top minister have overstated the privilege they enjoy as politicians as they try to get out of testifying at the Emergencies Act inquiry, the commissioner overseeing the proceeding said Monday in court documents.
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.
"The applicants overstate the extent of the privilege in issue," the commissioner said in court documents. "There is no blanket privilege to decline to testify; it is only a temporal privilege."In a judicial review application filed with the court last week, lawyers for Ford and Jones argued the summons breaches their parliamentary privilege by attempting to compel the pair to testify.
The commissioner said that it has "never been established" that parliamentary privilege can be used at an inquiry and that he is "legally entitled" to Ford and Jones's evidence under its parliamentary mandate. The commission wants Ford and Jones, who last week disclosed she had COVID-19, to testify on Nov. 10.
It wants to know why Ford and Jones didn't participate in several meetings with other levels of government over the situation. On Oct. 11, two days before the inquiry started, the commission's lawyers advised Ontario's lawyers they wanted Ford and Jones to testify, court documents show.
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