Commentary
While Prime Minister Trudeau often doesn’t appear to hold much regard for the views of Canadians, he is always very concerned about what the world outside of Canada thinks of him.
Recently released documents summarizing meetings of the government’s incident response group and cabinet held in February indicate Trudeau warned cabinet ministers that international partners were concerned about Canada’s “ability to handle” the truckers’ Freedom Convoy situation.
Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act two days after the meetings.
Slowly but surely, evidence is emerging that the government didn’t need to go as far as invoking the Emergencies Act to clear out the Ottawa protests this winter. It has been revealed that police forces never asked for the act to be implemented and negotiations between the City of Ottawa and the protesters were on the verge of a potential breakthrough in ending the demonstration. Despite having this knowledge in hand, the government still insisted on using the Emergencies Act….