OTTAWA — The national inquiry into the invocation of the Emergencies Act, in the wake of the truckers’ convoy occupation of downtown Ottawa, is going to be used as a political bullhorn for all kinds of individuals and groups who have been granted standing.
Commissioner Paul Rouleau will need to keep a tight grip on proceedings to prevent them pinballing all over the place, as discredited police officers and politicians seek to rehabilitate their reputations, and disgruntled provincial governments express umbrage that they were not consulted.
But Lakehead University law professor Ryan Alford made an opening statement that gets to the nub of the inquiry: the federal government has to prove it met the legal standard for using the emergency provision of last resort.
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