The Conservatives’ public safety critic says recently released government documents show that the threshold to invoke the Emergencies Act to clear the Freedom Convoy protests wasn’t met and that the federal government was wrong to use the act.
“The government was advised that negotiations were on the cusp of proving effective but instead invoked the emerg act, which eliminated the possibility of a peaceful resolution,” Raquel Dancho, Conservative MP and her party’s shadow minister for public safety, said in a social media post on Aug. 12.
“If the govt would have given protestors some dignity and showed compassion, there could have been a peaceful resolution. Instead, the Liberals brought down the sledgehammer, smashed charter rights, and treated protestors like second-class citizens not worthy of their time.”…