Federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino has repeatedly said that invoking the Emergencies Act in February was done based on the advice of law enforcement, but according to a senior public safety official, he has been “misunderstood” in saying that the act was requested specifically.
“I believe that the intention that he was trying to express was that law enforcement asked for the tools that were contained in the Emergencies Act,” said deputy minister Rob Stewart on June 7 in relation to Mendicino’s previous comments.
Stewart was testifying before the special joint committee of senators and MPs responsible for looking into the public order emergency declared by the government on Feb. 14 to deal with cross-country protests and blockades held in protest of COVID-19 mandates and restrictions….