The federal government says it will have an update in “the coming days” on what it plans to do with the recommendations coming out of the independent inquiry into Ottawa’s decision to invoke the never-before-used Emergencies Act.
Police enforce an injunction against protesters in downtown Ottawa on Feb. 19, 2022. Commissioner Paul Rouleau said that the federal government met the "very high" threshold needed to invoke the Emergencies Act last winter, citing "a failure in policing and federalism."
But Rouleau, an Ontario Court of Appeal justice, also wrote that the protests that gridlocked downtown Ottawa in early 2022 constituted an emergency that could have been avoided. He made 56 recommendations to improve the way police forces respond to wide-scale protests and how they communicate with each other, and suggested amendments to the Emergencies Act itself.While Rouleau called on the government to identify the recommendations it accepts within a year, Trudeau told reporters on Feb.
Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act on Feb. 14, 2022 to end the protests that had blocked downtown Ottawa's streets for nearly a month.
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