Redacted copy of memo from Privy Council Clerk to Prime Minister includes a note of caution about the government’s legal position
protesters at a border blockade in Coutts, Alta. and discovered a large cache of weapons there. Ms. Charette told the inquiry this was a significant development as the government prepared its advice.
“The decision-maker in the Emergencies Act is not CSIS,” Ms. Charette said, adding that there is nothing in the law that says the governor in council “has to ask CSIS if it’s okay.”at the inquiry on Thursday, Jody Thomas, the Prime Minister’s national security and intelligence adviser, said cabinet relied on a broader definition of threats than is explicitly contemplated in the Emergencies Act.
The memo says the Privy Council Office “is of the view that such a decision fits within the statutory parameters defining threats to the security of Canada, though this conclusion may be vulnerable to challenge.” “Can you imagine if we had waited for the commissioner to say: ‘I’m overwhelmed. It’s over. I can’t do that?’” she said.
The Ontario Provincial Police have testified that the Emergencies Act powers were not needed to clear the protests. And Ms. Luckithat she did not take a position or advise the government on whether invoking the act was appropriate, or whether the thresholds to use it had been met.
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