Tue Mar 15, 2022 – 6:41 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — A joint committee of Parliament officially launched an inquiry into the Trudeau Cabinet’s actions against the Freedom Convoy protesters.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, the “unprecedented inquiry” into Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Cabinet’s actions launched Monday is being headed by an 11-member joint panel that has “one year to determine why cabinet invoked extraordinary police powers against truckers.”
“In my opinion our discussions should be in public when they can be,” said Bloc Québécois MP Rhéal Fortin, adding that Canadians expect such an investigation to avoid secrecy “without good reason.”
The committee includes Liberal party appointees Senator Gwen Boniface, former Ontario Provincial Police commissioner; Senator Peter Harder, former government representative in the Senate; MP Yasir Naqvi, former Ontario attorney general; MP Arif Virani, former Crown lawyer; and MP Rachel Bendayan, a former corporate lawyer.
The Conservative Party appointees are Senator Vernon White, former Ottawa chief of police; Senator Claude Carignan, a lawyer; MP Larry Brock, a former Crown prosecutor; and MP Glen Motz, a retired police inspector.
The New Democrats also have one member, MP Matthew Green, and the Bloc Québécois has the aforementioned MP, Rhéal
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