Former Public Safety Minister of Bill Blair contradicts current Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino. Emergency preparedness minister Bill Blair is the latest to admit that the police didn’t ask for the Emergencies Act to be invoked:
“I’m not aware of any recommendation of law enforcement,” Blair said Tuesday. “Quite frankly, this is a decision of government.”
Blair said during the “Freedom Convoy” he spoke regularly with police who “were clearly having difficulties” restoring law and order, and that his role was to try to figure out why that was happening.
In response to Sen. Claude Carignan, who asked if Blair was aware of any such recommendation, he said, “Frankly I would have been quite surprised if the police had actually made a policy recommendation or asked for any legislative authority.”
“I do not believe that would have been an appropriate thing for law enforcement to ask, and they did not ask,” Blair said.”
During Emergencies Act committee testimony Bill Blair also admitted that Marco Mendicino misled Canadians when Mendicino linked the Freedom Convoy to the arson attempt in Ottawa.
Bill Blair confirms during testimony that police did not ask for the Emergencies Act “I’m not aware of any recommendation from law enforcement, quite frankly, this was the decision of government. It was it was it’s a decision of the government.”