OPP: FREEDOM CONVOY NOT A DIRECT THREAT

   OTTAWA – The Ontario Provincial Police intelligence unit never found evidence demonstrating that the Freedom Convoy posed a direct threat to national security before the unprecedented use of the Emergencies Act was invoked by the federal government.
   The head of the OPP’s Provincial Operations Intelligence Bureau (POIB) Superintendent Pat Morris testified in front of the Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC) that at no point during the protests did he receive reliable intelligence that led to believe there was a risk that would rise to the level of a potential threat to national security.
   During cross-examinations by different parties’ lawyers, he also agreed with the assertion that intelligence he saw never pointed to extremism.