Former Ottawa Police Service (OPS) Chief Peter Sloly said on Thursday neither he nor anyone in the service he directed asked the federal government to invoke the Emergencies Act to deal with the Freedom Convoy.
“I did not make that request. I’m not aware of anybody else in the Ottawa Police Service who did,” he said.
Sloly was testifying before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, which is studying expanding the parliamentary precinct in light of this winter’s large-scale and long-term protest.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino have said repeatedly that the public order emergency was declared on advice from law enforcement….