VIDEO: In a wide-ranging report released Friday, Ontario Justice Paul Rouleau found a “failure” of police and federalism turned last winter’s convoy protests into a national crisis. Full story:
OTTAWA—Police dysfunction, stubborn politics and a “failure of federalism” turned last winter’s so-called “Freedom Convoy” protests into a national crisis that warranted the first-ever use of the Emergencies Act, Ontario Justice Paul Rouleau concluded in a much-anticipated report.
Civil liberties groups, federal Conservatives and convoy leaders charged that the government went too far — and even violated constitutional rights — by using the Emergencies Act against convoy protesters. The move gave police extraordinary powers to outlaw public assemblies in certain areas, compel tow truck drivers to help clear blockades, and ensure banks freeze the bank accounts of participants in protests that were deemed illegal.
He also stressed that many of the protesters may have intended to be peaceful, “but the situation escaped their control. Rouleau, however, also concluded the need to invoke the act was avoidable – and that it was government and police failures that made it necessary.
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