Justin Trudeau testified under oath about his administration’s use of the Emergencies Act during the Freedom Convoy protests last winter.
During the inquiry, Trudeau said: “I did not call people who are unvaccinated names.”
Justin Trudeau, under oath:
“I did not call people who were unvaccinated [bad] names.”#POEC pic.twitter.com/LifrpsuQ0M
— Andy Lee – Special Rebel Rapporteur (@RealAndyLeeShow) November 25, 2022
Is that right?
Let’s rewind shall we!
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“Extremists”
“Misogynists”
“Racists”
“Small Fringe Element”
“Anti-Vaxxer Mobs”
Wouldn’t the above constitute as name calling?
True North reported:
On the final day of the Emergencies Act hearings, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave a much-anticipated testimony where he defended invoking the Act and denied ever having called unvaccinated Canadians names.
The Prime Minister said that despite not reading the police plan signed off on by the RCMP to clear protesters using existing powers, he did not have confidence in the plan and decided to invoke the Emergencies Act anyways.
Under questioning from Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) lawyer Ewa Krajewska, Trudeau was asked about the plan that RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki had approved of on February 13 – one day before the Emergencies Act was invoked – to clear protesters from Ottawa using existing laws.
“We heard evidence from Commissioner Lucki of the RCMP that she had signed off on a plan to enforce and remove the protesters from Ottawa on February 13 that she was confident in. That she, the OPP (Ontario Provincial Police) and the OPS (Ottawa Police Service) had confidence in. Did you hear that testimony?” Krajewska asked Trudeau.
“No, I disagree with that,” Trudeau responded. “I do not believe that the plan that was either signed off on supposedly by the RCMP or presented by the OPS on the 13th was in any real regards an actual plan for clearing the protests.”
When asked if this was a plan that Trudeau actually read himself, he responded. “I was spoken to about it, I did not see it myself.”
Trudeau then said that despite not reading the plan himself, the federal cabinet “did not have confidence in it.”
When asked about RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki’s plan to have trucks moved on Feb 13, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he had not personally read it, but still had no confidence in it. #POEC pic.twitter.com/VVKwlsTnOm
— True North (@TrueNorthCentre) November 25, 2022
Government of Canada lawyer intervenes after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is asked if he will release the unredacted version of the police plan he said he had no confidence in.#POEC pic.twitter.com/fc6Bh87KO2
— True North (@TrueNorthCentre) November 25, 2022
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that there was consensus among the Integrated Response Team to invoke the Emergencies Act and that nobody voiced concerns about the decision.#POEC pic.twitter.com/n2Mlr11SLF
— True North (@TrueNorthCentre) November 25, 2022
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggests the CSIS Act definition of a security threat has different thresholds when it's used for CSIS purposes from when it's used to justify the Emergencies Act.#POEC pic.twitter.com/oyo3EPeJDq
— True North (@TrueNorthCentre) November 25, 2022
Justin Trudeau says he is "absolutely, absolutely serene and confident" that he made the right choice to invoke the never-before-used Emergencies Act on the Freedom Convoy.#POEC pic.twitter.com/ne2tMjR3k8
— Harrison Faulkner (@Harry__Faulkner) November 25, 2022
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