Wed Jun 29, 2022 – 7:52 pm EDT
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OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — In an extremely rare decision, the Trudeau government agreed to waive Cabinet confidentiality and release the evidence it used to justify invoking the Emergencies Act to crush the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa earlier this year.
“The Government of Canada has responded to a request from Commissioner Paul Rouleau and agreed not to claim Cabinet privilege over the documents that Cabinet considered in making the decision to declare a public order emergency and implement special measures for dealing with the emergency in February 2022,” the Public Order Emergency Commission revealed in a Tuesday press release.
“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,” Co-Lead Commission Counsel Shantona Chaudhury and Jeffrey Leon said.
“On behalf of Commissioner Rouleau, we took the position that Cabinet documents must be released to facilitate the Commission’s examination and assessment of the basis for the Government’s decision
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