Fri Feb 17, 2023 – 1:10 pm ESTFri Feb 17, 2023 – 1:17 pm EST
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — Canada’s Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC), headed by Liberal-friendly Justice Paul Rouleau, has ruled in its much-anticipated report that Prime Ministers Justin Trudeau’s federal government was justified in its use of the Emergencies Act (EA) to crush the Freedom Convoy last year.
In the report, which was presented to parliament Friday, Rouleau wrote:
I have concluded that [Trudeau’s] Cabinet was reasonably concerned that the situation it was facing was worsening and at risk of becoming dangerous and unmanageable. There was credible and compelling evidence supporting both a subjective and objective reasonable belief in the existence of a public order emergency.
The decision to invoke the Act was appropriate.
Rouleau did admit, however, that he came to the conclusion “with reluctance,” and that the “state should generally be able to respond to circumstances of urgency without the use of emergency powers.”
He also stated that “while most of the measures” put in place by the EA “were appropriate,” others “fell short.”
Shockingly, one of the measures Rouleau supported was the unprecedented and controversial “asset-freezing regime,” in which people who financially supported
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