BREAKING: Ontario Premier Doug and former solicitor general Sylvia Jones will challenge a summons to appear before a commission investigating the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act.
Documents obtained by CP24 Tuesday evening show the premier and current health minister will bring their argument not to testify to a federal courtroom in Toronto on Nov. 1.
The filing of court documents makes good on a comment made by a spokesman for Ontario's Attorney General a day earlier in which he said the “summons are inconsistent with the members'Laywers for the national inquiry, Shantona Chaudhury and Jeffrey Leon, said the summons were issued on Monday after Ford and Jones refused to appear voluntarily.
They said their “repeated invitations were all declined” and that Ford and Jones refused to be interviewed privately before the public hearings beganHowever, Ford said at an unrelated news conference last week that he did not appear before the commission because he had not been asked.