TORONTO — Doug Ford’s government is arguing “irreparable harm will occur” if a summons for the Ontario premier to testify at the Emergencies Act inquiry is not quashed, court documents show.
In a judicial review application filed with Federal Court on Tuesday, Ontario’s Attorney General cited parliamentary privilege as the reason Ford and then-solicitor general Sylvia Jones cannot testify at the hearing taking place in Ottawa.
The commission wants to know why the province declined an invitation to be part of a “tripartite” meeting with the City of Ottawa and the federal government on how to solve the weeks-long occupation by the Freedom Convoy.
“The evidence so far is that Premier Ford told Mayor Watson the table was waste of time. Why?” commission lawyer Gabriel Poliquin wrote in an email to Darrell Kloeze, a Crown attorney with the province.
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