Loading ...Trudeau government only sought legal advice after Emergencies Act was invoked, records indicate
Records show that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act against Freedom Convoy truckers in Ottawa before seeking advice from the attorney general’s office on the lawfulness of the edict.
A Conservative MP’s request for information has revealed that the cabinet of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau waited until after it had invoked the Emergencies Act (EA), which was done to take down the peaceful Freedom Convoy, to get legal advice from Canada’s attorney general on whether its use was lawful.
As noted in a recent Blacklocks’s Reporter article, Access To Information?records obtained by Conservative MP Arnold Viersen from the office of the attorney general confirm what many MPs have been suspicious of for years, that Trudeau’s use of the EA was not really warranted.
The documents, despite being censored, do reveal that the two-page “Memorandum For The Attorney General” was dated February 15, 2022, and was written by the deputy director of prosecutions. The date of the memorandum is significant, as it comes after Trudeau had invoked the EA on February 14. Trudeau’s Attorney General Arif Virani, during testimony on February 28, said that there was a legal opinion offered regarding whether the use of the EA would be justified, but that its contents had to remain confidential.