The federal government won’t release its responses to each recommendation until February, 2024, says Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc
in February, 2022, to quell the protests gridlocking the capital and blockading border crossings, was appropriate. But he said he didn’t make the conclusion easily, because he did not consider “the factual basis for it to be overwhelming.”
In the report, Justice Rouleau called on the federal government to publicly identify, within one year, which of his 56 recommendations it would accept and reject.committed to that deadline and said the government would also provide an interim progress report within six months. That update is encompassed in a six-page letter that Mr. LeBlanc sent to Mr. Trudeau, which the government released Thursday.
One of the most contentious recommendations in Justice Rouleau’s report is for the government to review the threshold for invoking the Emergencies Act and modernize the definition of a public order emergency. In his Thursday letter, Mr. LeBlanc said the government is giving those recommendations “thoughtful consideration.”
During last year’s inquiry, Justice Rouleau heard from witnesses that intelligence gathering was disjointed and that the intelligence reports that were created were not always taken into account by police. His first recommendation was for better co-ordination in collecting and disseminating intelligence.is looking at “whether and how intelligence on serious criminality associated with public order events can be jointly managed and retained.
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