The director of CSIS told the Public Order Emergency Commission on Nov. 21 that he advised the prime minister the Emergencies Act should be invoked, even though his agency had found that the protests of last winter didn’t pose any threats to national security as defined by its mandate.
“We did not make a determination that the event itself” was a threat to national security, said Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) Director David Vigneault.
Where CSIS stood on the Freedom Convoy along with related protests and border blockades had surfaced earlier at the commission, but not that Vigneault had advised Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to invoke the act to deal with the situation….