Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his former solicitor general Sylvia Jones are going to court to fight an order to have them testify before the commission of inquiry into the Liberal government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act.
Ford defended the decision in the provincial legislature on Oct. 26, saying the inquiry is not a provincial issue.
“This is a federal inquiry into the federal government’s decision to use the federal Emergencies Act,” he said.
“For Ontario, this was a policing matter, it was not a political matter.”
The Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC) had summoned Ford and Jones to appear as witnesses on Nov. 10. In a judicial review application filed with Federal Court on Oct. 25, Ontario’s Attorney General cited “parliamentary privilege” as the reason the two declined to testify at the hearing….