The day before the PM invoked the Emergencies Act, his government was advised by CSIS that the Freedom Convoy wasn’t a threat to national security.
Despite that document, tabled at the EA inquiry, Trudeau invoked the EA within hours of receiving the threat assessment by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Ottawa SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.
“Foreign influenced activities within or relating to Canada that are detrimental to the interests of Canada and are clandestine or deceptive or involve a threat to any person. “Activities directed toward undermining by covert unlawful acts, or directed toward or intended ultimately to lead to the destruction or overthrow by violence of, the constitutionally established system of government in Canada …
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