RCMP head Brenda Lucki did not tell cabinet her belief that police had other options before Emergencies Act invoked
on Tuesday in which she couldn’t recall key meetings during the protests; said she didn’t understand the role thecould play or the process Ottawa police were to follow to get more resources; and was unable to explain comments from meetings and text exchanges that she participated in.
The federal government invoked the Emergencies Act on Feb. 14 to bring an end to the anti-government, anti-vaccine mandate protests that gridlocked Ottawa and several border crossings. The Public Order Emergency Commission, led by Justice Paul Rouleau, is studying the decision to trigger the act for the first time ever. The OPP have already told the inquiry the act was not needed and CSIS has said the protests did not meet the threat level required in the act.
Those same notes detail a finalized plan to bring an end to the protests that had gridlocked downtown Ottawa. The notes say that Commissioner Lucki and Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Thomas Carrique both supported the plan. And she told the inquiry on Tuesday that ultimately the powers granted under the federal emergency orders “ended up to be useful.”
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