The answer is no.
Evidence of meeting #9 for Declaration of Emergency in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was laws.
A video is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #9 for Declaration of Emergency in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was laws.
A video is available from Parliament.
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Deputy Minister, Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
The answer is no.
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Bloc
The Joint Chair Bloc Rhéal Fortin
Did you see orders like that coming from a police officer or another authority?
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Bloc
The Joint Chair Bloc Rhéal Fortin
If I understand correctly, you can't tell me under what order, what injunction or what legal provision the tow trucks decided, that morning, to tow the trucks.
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Deputy Minister, Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
I have only the testimony of the police.
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Deputy Minister, Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
They confirmed that it was the case. The order gave them the power to...
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Deputy Minister, Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
The Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police...
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Bloc
The Joint Chair Bloc Rhéal Fortin
That's Ms. Lucki, if memory serves.
Was it Ms. Lucki who gave the order to the tow trucks to come and tow the trucks?
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Deputy Minister, Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
No, but she knew that someone in the police had given the order.
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Bloc
The Joint Chair Bloc Rhéal Fortin
In your opinion, that couldn't have been done before the proclamation?
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Deputy Minister, Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
As I said, from what I know, the truckers refused to move their vehicles. It was impossible to...
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Bloc
The Joint Chair Bloc Rhéal Fortin
If some truckers decided to come back to Ottawa tomorrow morning and block Wellington Street, and if there were more protests where there were children, we would then have to invoke the Emergencies Act. Do I understand correctly?
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Deputy Minister, Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
The first thing that would be done would be to prevent the protest.
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Deputy Minister, Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
Simply because it was not foreseen.
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Bloc
The Joint Chair Bloc Rhéal Fortin
It was foreseen; it was announced in advance.
Everyone knew that hundreds, even thousands of trucks were en route to Ottawa.
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NDP
The Joint Chair NDP Matthew Green
Yes, and I will pass the chair on to you.
For my intervention, Mr. Chair, I'm happy to concede my time after I move the motion, of which the notice was put. I move:
That, in light of recent reports that numerous secret Orders in Council have been adopted, this committee demand the production of all secret Orders in Council adopted in relation to the convoy occupations and blockades across Canada, the invocation and/or revocation of the Emergency Measures Act, and that the documentation be provided to the committee within 30 days of the adoption of this motion.