Premier Doug Ford is feeling the heat over his refusal to testify at the federal Emergencies Act inquiry — and losing his cool.
Ford said it was “unreal” for Interim Liberal Leader John Fraser to criticize him forto avoid appearing at the hearings probing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s actions to end the so-called “Freedom Convoy” protests in Ottawa.
“If anyone was hiding, it was the premier of Ontario, as the residents of Ottawa suffered,” said Fraser . “There will likely be important gaps in the record if they do not testify,” Gabriel Poliquin, senior counsel of the commission, wrote to Darrell Kloeze, counsel in the Crown law office, civil division at the ministry of the attorney general.
Poliquin also made an appeal for Ford and Jones to appear for their own good, as well as the public good. Ford has insisted Ontario is co-operating with the commission by supplying about 800 cabinet documents and making two senior bureaucrats available to testify, but the commission argues that is not enough.
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