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A damning and frustrating report shows that 87 percent of federal records on the Freedom Convoy might never be seen by Canadians, at least not for decades. From Blacklock’s Reporter.
The Privy Council Office in a report to MPs and senators said it gave a total 31,844 documents to a judicial inquiry investigating cabinet’s use of the Emergencies Act against peaceful protestors. Of the 31,844 documents a total 27,815 or 87 percent were kept confidential by the Public Order Emergency Commission.
Concealed records included 16,632 classified as “secret” and 372 as “top secret.” Only Commission counsel and the judge leading the inquiry, Justice Paul Rouleau, had complete access to all 31,844 documents, wrote staff.
“The Commissioner and counsel had access to all information produced to the Commission,” said the report. “Given that the Commission was an independent commission of inquiry the Privy Council Office cannot comment on how specific documents were used by the Commission. These questions would need to be posed to former Commissioner Justice Rouleau.”
The report to the Special Joint Committee on the Declaration of Emergency made it clear the secret documents will not be released for years. All 31,844 documents were deposited in the national archives.
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The few thousand Freedom Convoy documents that were released persuaded the Federal Court last January 23 to rule cabinet acted unlawfully in using emergency powers against protestors. “The decision to issue the proclamation was unreasonable and led to infringement of Charter rights,” wrote Justice Richard Mosley
Documents that were seen showed cabinet members lied in claiming police asked for declaration of the Emergencies Act and made false claims protestors were violent to justify emergency powers. “There was no serious violence in Ottawa, the main reason for the Emergencies Act,” RCMP Deputy Commissioner Brian Brennan wrote in a February 21, 2022 email.
“It is not an ‘extremist’ movement,” wrote Ontario Provincial Police Superintendent Patrick Morris in a February 22, 2022 memo. “It is not comprised of ideologically motivated violent extremists. The actual leaders are not violent extremists with histories of violent criminal acts.”
The Blacklock’s story is just another example of how much is being kept from citizens in the wake of a botched convoy response that embarrassed the country across the globe.
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