Big theme in the #POEC report is the utter incompetence of the OPS failing to address the Hendon report but i have yet to see any flags at the federal level in this report being raised. This protest was driving across provincial lines to Ottawa. Why wasn't Ottawa concerned?
Reviewing the text message from Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino they knew the convoy was coming two days prior to their arrival in Ottawa as they were detailing plans how to exploit this event for political purposes
This is a huge indictment at the federal level
Their plan to scope this protest akin to the US Jan 6th failed due to social media
The sharing of videos of dancing, comradery and bouncy castles emerged and destroyed the federal narrative
Rather then plan for the protest the Federal government instead wanted the Protest to spiral
This is proved by the text message exchange that MM office wanted to keep the "crazies" within the protest
The federal government failed Canadians here
Marco Mendicinos office failed Canadians
Justin Trudeau by not holding his cabinet to the highest ethical standard failed Canadians
Frontier Centre for Public Policy, an award-winning western Canadian based public policy think tank released a rebuk to the #POEC report titled
"The Strange Conclusions of Justice Paul Rouleau"
2/15 In the #POEC response Justice Rouleau states:
“concluded that the very high level threshold required for the invocation of the (Emergencies) Act was met.- I do not consider the factual basis for it to be overwhelming"
3/15 During the #POEC hearings, the RCMP, CSIS, OPP, and Ottawa Police Service testified that the protesters did not pose a threat to national security and that the Emergencies Act was not warranted
I've just read all 270+ pages of the #POEC vol 1 so you don't have to
tldr; Ottawa incompetency at both provincial federal levels combined with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rhetoric that hardened the freedom protests resolve, lead to a national emergency...
yet the threat didn't qualify as a threat under the CSIS act as it is written in the act itself but Justice Rouleau interpretation of the emergency act
I'd imagine this interpretation of the act would be successfully challenged on appeal had this been an actual court of law
Justice Paul Rouleau in my estimation should never have weighed in on the justification of the act as he was not required to. As he was always seen to be politically bias due to his ties to the liberal party.
Public Safety developed a proposal for direct engagement between protesters in Ottawa and the Federal Government. A face-to-face meeting between protest leaders and federal officials had the potential to give the protesters a “win”
This would allow them to leave feeling that they had accomplished something
The OPS had identified six individuals with whom they believed they could engage
RCMP Commissioner Lucki raised concerns about the proposal. In particular, she suggested that it might interfere with police operational independence and that it was premature
Health Canada has released "Reported side effects following COVID-19 vaccination in Canada"
96, 432, 067 doses pf the Covid-19 vaccine has been administered
Of those vaccines administered 53,611 had "adverse" effects, 10, 565 of those reports were considered serious
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Health Canada and PHAC are aware of the report released on Friday January 13, 2023 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on findings from the Vaccine Safety Datalink.
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This preliminary safety signal has prompted additional investigation into whether there is a safety concern between the Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent COVID-19 vaccine and ischemic stroke in people 65 years of age and over