Interesting that the government could withhold a key piece of information from the "inquiry" into their misdeeds. Almost like turdOWE's WEF masters wrote the report and had the "judge" sign it.
This is very interesting all in itself, that he’s able to make a ruling based upon this non-information?Much of Rouleau’s rationale rests upon the well-established criminal law “reasonable belief” standard — which holds that perfect judgment is not required, but merely that a decision maker in possession of a certain set of facts acts in a way that is considered “reasonable.” There is little to quibble with here as a general principle.
But surprisingly, Rouleau simply shrugs off the government’s refusal to release the key legal opinion it received suggesting it met the legal threshold to invoke the act. Instead, Rouleau points to testimony from several witnesses — including the prime minister, attorney general and Clerk of the Privy Council — accepting that their own interpretation of this unknown advice was sufficient.
Still interesting that he’s able to makes his ruling on information he himself isn’t allowed to see?….And even though the government refused to produce the legal advice it was given to justify its actions, here Rouleau shrugged again. “Each of them (witnesses) explained what they believed those thresholds to be.
I do not need to see the legal advice itself in order to accept the evidence that they believed their conclusions to be justified in law,” he said.
This is suppose to start at least in April of this year.Rouleau is correct, however, that it is ultimately up to the courts to determine whether the federal government was legally justified in its actions — a process that’s already underway.
I found it highly unlikely that Trudeau happened to have picked an independent judge that was tied to his own family…though it was pointed out to me that the pool would be small factoring out Western Canadian farmers, etc…If there is a silver lining in this report, it’s that, by allowing his brother’s nephew to hold it up as a vindication, it may make Trudeau more likely to take seriously its recommendations on how governments can better work together, to ensure that future protests don’t escalate to a point where the government thinks that using the Emergencies Act is its only option.
Justice Rouleau isn’t “Directly” related to Justin Trudeau though so I was incorrect earlier. Justin’s Fathers Sister is married to Justice Rouleau’s Brother, which takes it a couple steps away from this:
Freedom is fragile and must be protected and that losing freedoms is never more than one generation away.