Public Inquiries into Emergencies Act begin September 19
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Gets weirder, & Trudeau shows up this coming week. Friday at the Emergencies Act inquiry, Canada’s top civil servant attempted to rewrite the law she was there to defend using to justify her actions.
With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and much of his cabinet appearing next week, we can expect more of the same.
LILLEY: Trudeau's top bureaucrat tries to change meaning of law to justify Emergencies Act — Toronto Sun
Friday at the Emergencies Act inquiry, Canada’s top civil servant attempted to rewrite the law she was there to defend using to justify her actions. With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and much of his cabinet appearing next week, we can expect more of the same. The main question the inquiry is...
Charette and Deputy Clerk Nathalie Drouin, said time and again that they didn’t believe they needed to find a national security threat as defined in law to invoke the act. It was a shocking exercise in watching bureaucrats attempt to change the plain meaning of the words in the legislation to match the actions they recommended the government take.
At one point in Friday’s testimony, Charette was asked if the full CSIS report which said there was no national security threat, as defined in law, had been put before the full cabinet. After humming and hawing for quite some time, Charette said that she couldn’t say – which means it wasn’t.
It is shocking beyond all belief that when the Trudeau cabinet was debating invoking the Emergencies Act they not only didn’t hear from leadership of Canada’s national security bodies – CSIS and the RCMP – the full cabinet wasn’t even given the report by CSIS to consider.
Next week we can expect more of this, a revisionist view of history, of what the Emergencies Act means, what it says and likely more evidence that the government, all the way up to cabinet, failed in it’s duties. The rest at the above link…
Jody Thomas thought there was the threat of violence . Yup the threat was the riot police trying to instigate a reaction .Jody Thomas, national security advisor to the P.M., did think there was a threat. Based on social media posts, she felt the convoy was a “threat to national interest and institutions by people who do not care about or understand democracy, who are preparing to be violent, who are motivated by anti-government sentiment.”
As if “anti-government sentiment” has suddenly become a crime.
In truth, it was the Trudeau government that cared little for democracy and seemed not to understand it.
More documents this week show Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland wanted every one of the hundreds of Canadians who had had their bank accounts and assets frozen for supporting the convoy to report to police before having their money and property released.
Under what authority? This is nothing more than “we’re watching you” intimidation, pure and simple.
Almost none of these people was ever charged with a crime. They had never had a chance to appear before a judge, yet somehow the Deputy P.M. thought they should go cap-in-hand to police and pledge to be good little boys and girls.
This week the commission also heard from assistant deputy Finance Minister Isabelle Jacques, who said it was never the department’s intention when freezing bank accounts to harm the families of account holders.
Really!? Mortgage, rent, loan and child support payments could not be made because the government froze hundreds of joint accounts, yet senior civil servants claim they couldn’t have predicted that would hurt spouses and children.
When asked whether the freezes would impact credit ratings, Jacques scoffed that “You’re talking about people involved in unlawful activities.”
GUNTER: CSIS told government Freedom Convoy was no security threat — Toronto Sun
“CSIS told government Freedom Convoy didn’t pose national security threat day before Emergencies Act invoked.” That was a headline in the National Post this week describing documents tabled at the public inquiry into the Trudeau government’s suspension of civil rights last winter to deal with...apple.news
But we’re not. Donating money to the convoy (the reason most accounts were frozen) was not illegal. Besides, to punish protestors and donors arbitrarily, without a trial and a chance to defend themselves, is undemocratic.
“CSIS told government Freedom Convoy didn’t pose national security threat day before Emergencies Act invoked.”
That was a headline in the National Post this week describing documents tabled at the public inquiry into the Trudeau government’s suspension of civil rights last winter to deal with the truckers’ protest in downtown Ottawa.
The national spy agency also told the Trudeau government it could find no evidence of foreign influence behind the convoy, nor traces of foreign funding. Nor did the protests ever satisfy the definition of “national security threat” laid out in the CSIS Act.
So, that’s it, right? The Rouleau inquiry can wrap up now. Its work is done….or maybe not. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to testify (or at least speak) at the Inquiry this coming week, & he’s ensured he’s been in the spotlight globally leading up to this…
The left currently ruining our country has revisionist views of a great many laws they don’t agree with. Like charter rights.Gets weirder, & Trudeau shows up this coming week. Friday at the Emergencies Act inquiry, Canada’s top civil servant attempted to rewrite the law she was there to defend using to justify her actions.
With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and much of his cabinet appearing next week, we can expect more of the same.
Janice Charette, clerk of the privy council, essentially Trudeau’s top bureaucratic lieutenant, claims they were justified but based on how the government FELT about the situation rather than meeting the test set out in law.
LILLEY: Trudeau's top bureaucrat tries to change meaning of law to justify Emergencies Act — Toronto Sun
Friday at the Emergencies Act inquiry, Canada’s top civil servant attempted to rewrite the law she was there to defend using to justify her actions. With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and much of his cabinet appearing next week, we can expect more of the same. The main question the inquiry is...
Charette and Deputy Clerk Nathalie Drouin, said time and again that they didn’t believe they needed to find a national security threat as defined in law to invoke the act. It was a shocking exercise in watching bureaucrats attempt to change the plain meaning of the words in the legislation to match the actions they recommended the government take.
At one point in Friday’s testimony, Charette was asked if the full CSIS report which said there was no national security threat, as defined in law, had been put before the full cabinet. After humming and hawing for quite some time, Charette said that she couldn’t say – which means it wasn’t.
It is shocking beyond all belief that when the Trudeau cabinet was debating invoking the Emergencies Act they not only didn’t hear from leadership of Canada’s national security bodies – CSIS and the RCMP – the full cabinet wasn’t even given the report by CSIS to consider.
Next week we can expect more of this, a revisionist view of history, of what the Emergencies Act means, what it says and likely more evidence that the government, all the way up to cabinet, failed in it’s duties. The rest at the above link…
We recently learned through secret cabinet documents that Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland wanted individuals whose bank accounts had been frozen to be denied their cash until they reported to the police. The suggestion was not ultimately acted upon, but was made public in a redacted document shared with the Public Order Emergency Commission.
What is even more alarming is that the major banks were apparently pleased with this suggestion. One financial institution, Farm Credit Canada, a Crown corporation that provides financial services primarily to farms, went so far as to tell its employees to proactively and secretly record the names of customers who they suspected may have been involved with the convoy, according to a Blacklock’s Reporter story based on documents provided through an access to information request. This sounds more like communist East Germany, than India or Hungary.
Rupa Subramanya: Canada's illiberal backsliding — National Post
It’s ironic that, by some measures, Canada, which we once assumed to be a bastion of liberal democracy, is becoming increasingly illiberal
Thank your local NDP MP they are happy to prop up the Liberals .We recently learned through secret cabinet documents that Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland wanted individuals whose bank accounts had been frozen to be denied their cash until they reported to the police. The suggestion was not ultimately acted upon, but was made public in a redacted document shared with the Public Order Emergency Commission.
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What is even more alarming is that the major banks were apparently pleased with this suggestion. One financial institution, Farm Credit Canada, a Crown corporation that provides financial services primarily to farms, went so far as to tell its employees to proactively and secretly record the names of customers who they suspected may have been involved with the convoy, according to a Blacklock’s Reporter story based on documents provided through an access to information request. This sounds more like communist East Germany, than India or Hungary.
Rupa Subramanya: Canada's illiberal backsliding — National Post
It’s ironic that, by some measures, Canada, which we once assumed to be a bastion of liberal democracy, is becoming increasingly illiberal
There’s a couple in MB, & a couple in AB. Maybe it’s how “local” is defined?
That’s too bad. Guess I can’t claim that Polar Bears are local to Regina.
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Well, Thompson says it all. Id stay away from that shithole even if Scotty could beam me there and back in seconds.
Its still even further to polar bears in Churchill.
Its still even further to polar bears in Churchill.
Looking at the map above, you might be able to squeak in a Crichton SK to Thompson MB in about (maybe under)4 hours…so wild Polar Bears might be “local” to Saskatchewan. As local as NDP MP’s anyway.
No polar bears in Thompson. Blacks and a few browns some Teddy bears, gummi bears but no polar bears.
Ah…the tourists migrate from Thompson to Churchill to see Polar Bears. NDP MP’s being local is getting less local.