Constitutional freedom and civil liberties organizations expressed disagreement with the main conclusion of the Public Order Emergency Commission and said federal courts must rule on the legality of the Emergencies Act’s use against the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa.
Commissioner Paul Rouleau on Feb. 17 released the final report of the inquiry into the government’s use of the Emergencies Act to clear convoy protests against COVID-19 mandates. Ruleau concluded that the government had met the “very high ” threshold to invoke the act.
Cara Zwiebel, director of the fundamental freedoms program at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) and co-counsel for the CCLA before the commission, noted that Commissioner Paul Roleau had reached his decision with reluctance….