Wed Nov 23, 2022 – 6:31 pm EST
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — After a heated exchange during testimony at the Public Order Emergency Commission hearings on Tuesday, Freedom Convoy lawyer Brendan Miller was asked to leave the room by Justice Paul Rouleau.
The tense exchange began after Miller had asked Rouleau if Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino’s director of communications, Alexander Cohen, could be called to testify, with Miller also wanting clarity on outstanding written motions he had filed to have some of the documents submitted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s federal government be unredacted.
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During the heated back-and-forth, Miller argued that there was “relevant” points in said documents that would serve as evidence about “misinformation” in a text message chat that was crucial “in building the narrative with respect to the protesters in Ottawa being extremists.”
Rouleau told Miller that he was not going to “do this orally right now,” to which a frustrated Miller responded, “We’re given 15 minutes to cross-examine, to elicit relative material evidence, and we have relevant and material witnesses here.”
Rouleau said that the commission’s schedule had to be kept, to which Miller quipped, “Sir, the schedule’s not
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