#POEC Take aways Part 2: OK, so the first four weeks of the testimony, with a few exceptions, were about the fun convoy and the befuddlement of the various police forces dealing with a peaceful, largely legal, protest. Now it gets darker. 1/
The Friday before the last week, the head of CSIS, an agency which had already opined that the convoy did not rise to the threat level required for a national emergency, pivoted and stated that the Emergencies Act was "required" to end the "occupation". 2/
Pivot! Now the Liberal regime had cover for its dark convoy narrative. The ladies from PCO put their oar in as well, but not as precisely as Canada's spy chief. "Everything was on the table, no matter how crazy." are words the Clerk of the Privy Council does not say. 3/
Time for "Snake Week" when the Ministers and political staff would weigh in and prep the terrain for the Prime Minister of all the Canadas to speak his piece. The Ministers were not happy with the cops. Things had got out of hand. 4/
The details of the testimony really didn't matter. It was bad out there and getting worse. America called and demanded action. The PM was getting rude questions. Jokes about tanks were texted between Ministers. 5/
Twitch, our Minister of Finance had chatted with Canada's bankers who suggested she declare the protestors "domestic terrorists" otherwise their hands were tied vis a vis freezing bank accounts. 6/
The snakes' evidence was contradictory in places but, again, it didn't matter. They were firing for effect and conjured up a caricature of the dark convoy which would give any right thinking Canadian nightmares. 7/
No actual violence but they had read about the Nazi flag and the arson attempt and wherever there are burley men, just like in man camps, no woman can be certain she won't be raped. The barbarians were at the gates. 8/
Canada's very own AG and Min of Justice who admitted he had fled in fear to his Montreal redoubt, played hid the pea with a legal opinion which his Deparment may or may not have written on invoking the Emergencies Act. 9/
It was cute watching our Chief Law Officer being all coy, unsure whether to claim solicitor client confidentiality or play the Cabinet secret card. Either way, our AG was certainly not going to release the opinion or even admit it had been written. 10/
Eventually, the Commissioner said, and I paraphrase, "So you are unable to give us the opinion or your opinion and we are just going to have to assume you acted in good faith." The AG smiled and agreed. 11/
Each of the junior snakes was more than willing to run the clock with entirely irrelevant digressions. The Commissioner allowed this time and again. But, at last, the stage was dressed and the Prime Minister of All the Canadas was ready for his close up. 12/
Thus endeth part two, time for a cocktail on this windy, wet West Coast night. 13/13
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