CSIS\u0027 recommendation to invoke the Emergencies Act is a significant boost to the federal government’s case.
Canadian Security Intelligence Service director David Vigneault told the Emergencies Act inquiry during a secret hearing that he advised Trudeau to invoke the act “based on his opinion of everything he had seen to that point” during a meeting on Feb. 13, the day before it was invoked.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
But Vigneault also told the inquiry that at no point did the Freedom Convoy ever “constitute a threat to the security of Canada,” but that assessment does not include other factors “such as economic harm or environmental harm, even public health harm, and the pandemic,” because they are not included within the confines of the CSIS Act.
That legal interpretation has not been made public because it is covered by solicitor-client privilege. In a statement, Canadian Constitution Foundation lawyer Sujit Choudhry called on the government to waive that protection and make the document public. “This provision was enacted nearly 40 years ago and there is a need for mature, public discourse around the reform of national security legislation,” he told the commission according to his witness statement.
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