OTTAWA — The word “unprecedented” applies to some aspects of the massive public inquiry underway in Ottawa.
After all, the commission is investigating the first-time use of the federal Emergencies Act during the “Freedom Convoy,” protests last winter that decried extraordinary restrictions during a global pandemic.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.
The elder Trudeau did talk behind closed doors, though, and his 1980 testimony was wrapped into the final reports delivered in 1981 by Alberta judge David Cargill McDonald. So was the reasoning and legal opinion behind the commission’s decision not to compel him as a public witness. Trudeau retired from politics in 1984 and was succeeded by John Turner, who suffered a landslide defeat in a federal election the same year.In early 2004, on the heels of his takeover of the Liberal party from Jean Chretien, then-prime minister Paul Martin called a commission of inquiry into the sponsorship program and advertising activities, led by Quebec justice John Gomery.Article content
The former prime minister’s lawyers argued that Gomery should be removed from the inquiry because he had criticized Chretien publicly for allowing his name to be printed on a series of golf balls. In a memorable stunt, Chretien’s lawyer gave him a chance at the end of his testimony to pull out various golf-ball gifts he’d received from the likes of American presidents.Article content
He distanced himself from the sponsorship program and argued that as the minister of finance under Chretien, he had overseen federal government spending writ large without knowing of granular details at the departmental level.Article content In May 2009, Mulroney, who had urged Harper that a public inquiry was the only way to clear his name, was called in to testify.
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