The Liberal government has agreed to release the cabinet documents it used to justify invoking the Emergencies Act after a request made by the Public Order Emergency Commissioner.
The head of the Public Order Emergency Commission, Paul Rouleau, had requested that the Liberal government waive cabinet confidence—the privilege to protect the disclosure of discussions between federal cabinet ministers—to provide the commission with the relevant documents they used in the decision to invoke the act.
“This exceptional step recognizes the fundamental importance of the Commission’s work and how critical these documents are in inquiring into why the Government declared a public order emergency,” the commission’s co-counsels Shantona Chaudhury and Jeffrey Leon said in a June 28 statement….