With testimony showing that the government clearly didn\u0027t meet the legal threshold for the Emergencies Act, they\u0027re changing definitions.
CSIS Director David Vigneault did that Monday morning in testimony before the inquiry, saying he took a broader view than stated in the law.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.
Effectively, Vigneault, the head of CSIS, joined other top bureaucrats in rewriting the Emergencies Act to justify its use after the fact. While the Emergencies Act specifically says a public order emergency needs to be a threat to national security as defined by Sec. 2 of the CSIS Act, Vigneault called that outdated.Article content
What David Vigneault thinks about how up to date the definition of a threat to national security is irrelevant. He’s a bureaucrat, not an elected official, and even elected officials can’t change definitions on a whim.It was Rob Stewart, the former deputy minister of public safety, who first began laying out this argument that the government used a different definition of a threat to national security, that they had other evidence not tested against the legal threshold.
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