BREAKING: Premier Doug Ford and former solicitor general Sylvia Jones have filed an application to federal court to challenge a summons to appear before a commission examining 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.
They said their “repeated invitations were all declined” and that Ford and Jones refused to be interviewed privately before the public hearings began earlier this month. “If you disrupt the lives of the people of Ottawa every single day, disrupt the lives and economic flow across our borders, I have zero tolerance for it,” he said at the time.
Moreover, the government is arguing that the summons were issued “without jurisdiction, pursuant to an error of law, and must be quashed.”