Bureaucrats supporting the Prime Minister’s Office claim they need until February 2023 to decide whether to release records about the Freedom Convoy, the same month the judicial inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act is set to wrap up.
According to the Privy Council Office, they need almost a year to process request and are deciding whether the records can be released until Feb. 13, 2023.
That is one week before the final report from the judicial inquiry probing whether the invocation of the Emergencies Act was warranted is required to be tabled in the House of Commons. Justice Paul S. Rouleau, an Ontario appeals court judge, is leading that inquiry.