The warm front that passed across Ottawa on Monday morning was caused by a collective sigh of relief emitted by a number of senior ministers and government staffers, after Canada’s top spy revealed in testimony that he advised the prime minister to invoke the Emergencies Act last February to break up the Freedom Convoy.
The Liberals have been adrift on a tossing sea as multiple witnesses testified to the Public Order Emergency Commission that, while the act was helpful, it was not necessary.
Yet in his testimony, it emerged that in a meeting on Feb. 13, CSIS director, David Vigneault advised Justin Trudeau that he agreed it was appropriate to invoke the Emergencies Act because he had gained an understanding that the Emergencies Act definition of what constituted a threat to national security was broader than that laid out in the CSIS Act.
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