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Day 28 of Public Hearings, November 22, 2022 Public Inquiry for the Invocation of the Emergencies Act

ByTia Riley

Nov 22, 2022 #Canada, #Emergencies Act, #Federal, #protests, #public inquiry

Day 28 of the Emergencies Act Public Inquiry, Marco Mendicino, Public Safety Minister testified that he was aware that the Freedom Convoy did not pose a threat to national security as is required in the Act. “Yes, I was aware that CSIS had concluded that Section 2 under the CSIS Act was not met. I was aware of that fact,” Mendicino responded.

Hand-written notes which were made public Tuesday indicated that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s national security and intelligence advisor knew that Section 2 under the CSIS Act was not met.

MINISTER MARCO MENDICINO, Sworn
Examination in-Chief by Ms. Shantona Chaudhury
Cross-Examination by Mr. Christopher Diana
Cross-Examination by Ms. Jessica Barrow
Cross-Examination by Mr. Tom Curry
Cross-Examination by Mr. Paul Champ
Cross-Examination by Ms. Mandy England
Cross-Examination by Ms. Cheyenne Arnold-Cunningham
Cross-Examination by Mr. Sujit Choudhry
Cross-Examination by Mr. Antoine D’Ailly
Cross-Examination by Ms. Cara Zwibel
Cross-Examination by Ms. Jennifer King
Cross-Examination by Mr. Brendan Miller
Cross-Examination by Mr. Michael Morris
Cross-Examination by Ms. Nini Jones
Cross-Examination by Mr. Brendan van Niejenhuis

Mic drop moment! Look at Mendicino’s face.

Marco Mendicino continues to cite the potential for violence within the convoy, again referencing concerns about guns in Ottawa, while conveniently glossing over that the charge was laid against a counter-protestor.

Formerly redacted documents released today show that Marco Mendicino was aware that CSIS had concluded that the legal threshold under Section 2 of the CSIS Act necessary to invoke the Emergencies Act had not been satisfied.

Marco Mendicino confirms that on the day the government invoked the Emergencies Act, he was aware that CSIS had concluded the Freedom Convoy didn’t meet the definition of a threat to national security spelled out in the legislation.

Minister Marco Mendicino declines to confirm whether law enforcement requested the Emergencies Act, states “As you heard from CSIS, the threshold was met in the broader interpretation of the law.”
The law sure seems to get broader as the government’s case gets weaker.

Miller knows what’s up. Alex Cohen wants to testify and do the right thing. Big blow up while Mendicino smiles

Keith Wilson says his team isn’t ready to cross-examine Marco Mendicino because text conversations relating to Mendicino have yet to be released and because Rouleau ejected lawyer Brendan Miller.

Defence Minister Anita Anand is grilled over Ministers Mendicino and Lametti’s texts about using tanks against peaceful Freedom Convoy protestors.

Mendicino gets creative on whether the legal threshold for the EA was met: We needed to look at the broader scope of the EA, which meant looking at Section 2 of that statute where it talks about the presence of a serious threat. In my judgement, you kind of need to look at both.

Marco Mendicino isn’t aware, of anything.

In justifying the Emergencies Act, Mendicino says protesters had “a politically stated objective to overthrow the govt if it refused to reverse course on pandemic policy”. He says the protest was “national in scale.” The Act was not needed to end blockades in Coutts & Windsor.

In an internal exchange between Ministers LeBlanc and Mendicino, the pair discuss former Alberta premier Kenney’s comments that “the trucker vax policy is obviously dumb political theatre.” Mendicino disagrees, but notes it was in the Liberals’ election platform.

“I was aware that CSIS had concluded that section 2 under the CSIS Act was not met,” testifies Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino in response to a note written by national security adviser Jody Thomas.

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino sidesteps question on whether the federal government’s vaccine mandate, which the Liberals campaigned on in the 2021 election, was “political or ideological.”

Formerly redacted documents released today show that Marco Mendicino was aware that CSIS had concluded that the legal threshold under Section 2 of the CSIS Act necessary to invoke the Emergencies Act had not been satisfied.

TENSE EXCHANGE: Freedom Convoy lawyer Brendan Miller presses Commissioner Rouleau to subpoena Alex Cohen, a communications staffer under Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino.

Coutts border blockaders were a “hardened cell of individuals who were armed to the teeth with lethal firearms who possessed a willingness to go down with the cause,” according to Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, noting the RCMP had informants embedded.

A segment of Freedom Convoy protesters “had other more extreme objectives” and “was much more sophisticated and organized.” This group gathered around Coventry Rd and “potentially” consisted of former military or law enforcement, Mendicino says.

Trudeau’s Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino says CSIS said the threshold to invoke the Emergencies Act was met “in the broader interpretation of the law.”

The commission reviews internal messages where Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino was advised not to go to the Ambassador Bridge blockade in Windsor, Ont., with the minister describing it as “solid advice.”

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino learned of PM Trudeau’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act “after the First Ministers meeting” and “through a series of conversations with staff and officials” sometime in the mid-afternoon on Feb. 14.

Text messages between David T. LAMETTI & Marco MENDICINO. “Bromance”

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino talks to the commission about having to “weigh the risks” of not invoking the Emergencies Act, and states it was “utter and total mayhem… let’s call a spade a spade.”

“It was virtually impossible to enforce the law on Wellington St” during the first weekend of the Freedom Convoy, testifies Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino. The minister also recalls a few situations that apparently involved firearms.

“Your guy has really screwed the pooch”: The inquiry hears a message sent by former Alberta premier Jason Kenney to Trudeau’s ministers Mendicino, Alghabra and LeBlanc during the Freedom Convoy and Coutts border blockade.

Minister of public safety Canada Marco MENDICINO testified: “or else to see the government overthrown, resigned, suggested to me that there may be an entrenchment as time went on.”

Bendozer (Brendan MILLER) cross-examines Minister of Public Safety Marco MENDICINO. “The threshold was met in the broader interpretation of the law”

After learning the Coutts and Windsor border blockades had cleared, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino mentions “reports of flare-ups” and that progress to end these protests “was not linear, it was very much a whack-a-mole kind of dynamic.”

Deputy Premier of Ontario Sylvia JONES allegedly said “I don’t take edicts from you, you’re not my f*cking boss” message relayed to Marco MENDICINO, minister of public safety.

Alberta’s request to use “military assets,” says Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, caused “concern about potentially opening up the door to other requests to insert the military” into the response to the Freedom Convoy and other protests.

MINISTER DOMINIC LeBLANC, Sworn
Examination in-Chief by Ms. Shantona Chaudhury
Cross-Examination by Mr. Michael Morris
Cross-Examination by Mr. Sujit Choudhry
Cross-Examination by Mr. Hatim Kheir
Cross-Examination by Mr. Graham Reeder
Cross-Examination by Ms. Alyssa Tomkins
Cross-Examination by Ms. Rebecca Jones
Cross-Examination by Ms. Stephanie Bowes
Cross-Examination by Mr. Robert MacKinnon

JCCF lawyer cross-examines Dominic LEBLANC. “I would also remind you that the United States had a vaccine mandate with respect to truckers that the government of Canada was not able to lift.”

Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic LEBLANC shows his text messages. Text messages between #Alberta premier Jason Kenny “Your guy has really screwed the pooch. This trucker vaxx policy is obviously just dumb political theatre”

By Tia Riley

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