Emergencies Act commission: Top federal bureaucrat ordered staff to 'leave no stone unturned' to find ways to end protests
“My intention was to try to say to my deputy minister, colleagues, we have to leave no stone unturned. We have to make sure that we are looking at every power.”
It also considered various ways to gain the support of tow truck companies, which most inquiry witnesses have said were largely reluctant to act against the Freedom Convoy protesting in Ottawa and blocking the international border at Windsor, Ont., and Coutts, Alta. But Charette and PCO deputy clerk Nathalie Drouin told the inquiry Friday that in the government’s view, even though CSIS didn’t find a specific threat within the Freedom Convoy, it considered protests across the country as a whole constituted a threat worthy of the Emergencies Act.Article content
“The movement had moved beyond a peaceful protest and there is significant evidence of illegal activity underway,” she wrote. In recent days, several people have testified on the question of whether cabinet knew on Feb. 13 that police agencies had in fact already developed a plan to clear the protests without using the act.
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