🧵To read the histrionics being promulgated by the likes of @RobynUrback, you’d think the declaration of a public order emergency in February involved tanks in the streets, rubber bullets if not worse, and mass arrests and detention. Let’s give our heads a shake: the vast …
majority of Canadians applauded, the declaration had immediate effect in reversing the abject failures of multiple police services, lasted mere days, and was rescinded as soon as the necessary effects had been realized.
The decision to make the declaration obviously rested on …
multiple sources of information and multiple ministerial and official perspectives. The notion that there exists some kind of rulebook that ministers and officials would cite in unison in identical terms in giving their accounts of why the decision was made is simply adolescent…
in the extreme.
All the critics and pundits are engaging in now is at best a debate over angels dancing on the head of a pin and at worst an exercise in bad faith recrimination.
🍁Canadians at large have meanwhile moved on with a huge sense of relief. #cdnmedia@CPC_HQ#cdnpoli
Thought experiment thread:
Motive: @rcmpgrcpolice, @OPP, @OttawaPS all perform abysmally in anticipating and containing #KuKluxKonvoy, are themselves riddled with Konvoy sympathizers/operatives, need to deflect scrutiny coming from parliamentary and judicial inquiries…
Opportunity: @CPC_HQ thugs, likewise fearing scrutiny, extract ministerial statements about pre-Emergency Act consultations with said police services, none saying expressly or precisely that police “asked” for EA declaration.
Shape-shifting @CPC thugs then question said police…
as to whether they “asked” ministers for EA declaration.
Means: Having been prepped by @CPC_HQ thugs in advance to answer “no”, police witnesses dutifully do just that, allowing shape-shifting @CPC_HQ thugs to claim ministers lied about being “asked” for declaration…
🧵So, just had the great privilege of sitting through Question Period in the Government Members’ Gallery in the House of Commons’ temporary quarters, as guest of my old home town’s MP, @TurnbullWhitby. …
The star attraction today was Minister @marcomendicino, who faced Conservatives trying eighteen different ways to twist his words on the Emergencies Act declaration so as to make him out as having lied. Being the former Crown Attorney that he is, the one who successfully …
prosecuted members of the Toronto 18 terrorist group, the Minister remained unflappable. The shape shifters failed to lay a glove on him with their attempts to turn police advice and consultation into an ‘ask’. They were left groaning in consternation as the Minister took …
🧵So, @PierrePoilievre, given your support of the 🍁gun cult, if elected Prime Minister, will you legalize concealed carry of firearms in our cities, as they advocate?
It’s a yes or no question, Mr. Poilievre.
Yes or no? #cdnpoli
And Mr. Poilievre, will you also enact their demand to decriminalize possession of a firearm without a license?
Yes or no, Mr. Poilievre.
Moreover, Mr. Poilievre, will you amend the Criminal Code to make clear that self-defence by gun is recognized as being just peachy keen?
Yes or no, Mr. Poilievre.
Of course the @globeandmail editorialists have a ludicrously hostile take on the inquiry under s. 63 of the Emergencies Act.
They quote the command for an inquiry to look into “the circumstances that led to the declaration” but refuse to accept that those circumstances …
must necessarily include all the aspects listed in the inquiry’s terms of reference: the convoy itself, its funding, its incitement on social media etc.
S. 63 of the Act doesn’t create a ‘hot seat’ at all for the government that issues a declaration. It’s designed to require a
careful study of 1) what led to the need for any declaration, so as to inform us on how not to allow such circumstances to progress to emergencies in future; and 2) how, once declared, any emergency was actually handled, again so as to inform us on how future emergencies can …
🧵Can we be clear, please, about the commission appointed yesterday under the Emergencies Act?
It’s not a matter of politics.
It’s required by s. 63 of the statute itself, passed by a Conservative government in 1988.
The Cabinet is obliged to cause an inquiry to be conducted …
into the circumstances that led to the emergency being declared and the measures taken to deal with the emergency.
That is exactly what the commissioner here is directed to do…
The commissioner is a senior judge of longstanding and impeccable reputation.
He is and will be independent of the government.
His appointment is not something the government chose to do: it was obliged by law to cause an inquiry within 60 days of the end of the…