Wed Oct 26, 2022 – 2:15 pm EDTWed Oct 26, 2022 – 2:19 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – The public hearings into the use of the Emergencies Act (EA) revealed on Tuesday that the organizers of the Freedom Convoy, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s federal government, and both federal and provincial police were on the cusp of a deal to end the protest amicably before the act was invoked.
On Tuesday, Brendan Miller, counsel for the Freedom Convoy, grilled Ontario Provincial Police Inspector Marcel Beaudin during the public inquiry examination period in Ottawa, asking him what happened to the proposed February 11 agreement to peacefully end the protest that he drafted alongside Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Commissioner Brenda Lucki and then-Deputy Public Safety Minister Rob Stewart.
Beaudin testified that he believed the proposal was “dead in the water” and that it was likely not tabled to the Trudeau government before they invoked the EA, at which point Miller stated that the proposal was in fact discussed, but was ultimately ignored by the federal government.
Convoy lawyer Brendan Miller tells the leader of the OPP negotiation team Marcel Beaudin that the negotiation proposal reached by OPP,
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