A few days before the act was invoked, Trudeau told Ontario Premier Doug Ford that, \u0027You shouldn\u0027t need more tools — legal tools\u0027
The Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa overwhelmed police last winter and was a weeks-long nuisance for residents that should have, without question, been better policed and contained. But failure to control what was mostly a non-violent demonstration, and not some foreign occupation as Liberal supporters would have us believe, does not count as a national emergency.The NP Comment newsletter from columnist Colby Cosh and NP Comment editors tackles the important topics with boldness, verve and wit.
That echoes testimony last month by Pat Morris, head of the Ontario Provincial Police intelligence unit, who Morris added that the OPP “found no credible intelligence of threats,” and that, “The lack of violent crime was shocking.”in a witness statement that police could have resolved the blockades without new powers. She believed, at the time, police had “not exhausted all available tools that are already available through the existing legislation.”
It is true that the Ottawa protest, which featured hundreds of trucks clogging city streets, was not brought under control until after the act was invoked, but that doesn’t mean it was needed. Policein place to address the convoy, but resources had to be redirected to the border crossing in Windsor. The act was not needed for those resources to then be returned to Ottawa.
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