Eva Chipiuk, the chief legal counsel for the Freedom Convoy during the Emergencies Act Inquiry, told me Sunday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “should not get a secret copy of the POEC [Public Order Emergency Commission or Emergencies Act Inquiry] report.” .Trudeau will be getting a copy of the report on Feb. 6 — well in advance of its general release on Feb. 20. While it is standard practice and understandable for governments to receive reports of all kinds hours before general release, this two-week advance is an eyebrow-raiser. What legitimate reason could there be?.Chipiuk famously exposed Trudeau for lying during his all-day session at the Inquiry when she jousted with him on the stand, Nov. 25. I was there reporting and included the exchange in my column that day. .Chipiuk asked Trudeau, “When did you start to be afraid of your own citizens?” .Trudeau denied he that he was. .Then she asked the prime minister why he called the unvaccinated “names.” .Trudeau falsely denied he had. .He was either lying or unable to remember his own words. In fact, he called them "racists and misogynistic." .Chipiuk is spot on when she says Trudeau should not be receiving a secret copy of the POEC report on Feb. 6. This is highly troubling because it means Canadians could have no assurance that Trudeau and the Liberal cabinet had not tampered with it before the Official Opposition Conservatives or the public — you and I — see it. .Chipiuk has already criticized the commission for accepting late and heavily censored documents from the Trudeau government that were included in the Inquiry. .She has also noted that Trudeau has not revealed what the legal opinion was of his decision to invoke the Emergencies [War Measures] Act on Feb. 14, 2022 to crush the Freedom Convoy protest. .“The feds refuse to release the legal opinion they claim justified the use of the Emergencies Act (EA); and (2) The #poec is giving Trudeau and his Cabinet a secret report on Feb 6 and Parliament & the public get the report on Feb 20. Does this sounds transparent to you?” the lawyer tweeted. .No, it doesn’t sound transparent to me and I’m sure it won’t to you readers. .I will be interviewing Chipiuk this week as we get closer to the Trudeau release date. .I have already reported that the Emergencies Act Inquiry did not end after Trudeau’s testimony but heard from a variety of "experts” for the next week or so about whether invoking the Emergencies [War Measures] Act was an appropriate response from the federal government. The media and the public were largely absent because they the commission did not promote these sessions. .Commission Justice Paul Rouleau needs to restore any legitimacy the Inquiry had and not give Trudeau an advance copy of the report. .His not doing so is vital for Canadian democracy. .As Chipiuk has noted, “Many have said they lost confidence in the Public Order Emergency Commission (#poec) because of how the feds behaved and how the #poec managed the inquiry.” .This looks like little better and nothing more than political damage control on behalf of a Trudeau government that has teetered from one personal, political and financial scandal to another: Remember the blackface routines, the SNC Lavalin disaster and the WE Charity catastrophe?.Trudeau must be held accountable and not whitewashed for invoking the Emergencies Act to punish his political opponents. Remember how he admitted that raw retribution was his real motivation for using this authoritarian legislation. .On the one-year anniversary of the start of the Freedom Convoy protests, people again came to Parliament Hill on the weekend, despite one of the worst snow storms in recent memory. I would like to know why these two youths in this video, carrying a Canadian flag and wearing "Save Canada" baseball caps, were handcuffed and arrested Sunday by Parliament Hill security. Is carrying a flag an offence? Why were they handcuffed by Parliamentary security when they were clearly standing on Wellington St.? .It’s actions like this that convince me we must demand the truth about Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act and we should be satisfied with nothing less.
Eva Chipiuk, the chief legal counsel for the Freedom Convoy during the Emergencies Act Inquiry, told me Sunday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “should not get a secret copy of the POEC [Public Order Emergency Commission or Emergencies Act Inquiry] report.” .Trudeau will be getting a copy of the report on Feb. 6 — well in advance of its general release on Feb. 20. While it is standard practice and understandable for governments to receive reports of all kinds hours before general release, this two-week advance is an eyebrow-raiser. What legitimate reason could there be?.Chipiuk famously exposed Trudeau for lying during his all-day session at the Inquiry when she jousted with him on the stand, Nov. 25. I was there reporting and included the exchange in my column that day. .Chipiuk asked Trudeau, “When did you start to be afraid of your own citizens?” .Trudeau denied he that he was. .Then she asked the prime minister why he called the unvaccinated “names.” .Trudeau falsely denied he had. .He was either lying or unable to remember his own words. In fact, he called them "racists and misogynistic." .Chipiuk is spot on when she says Trudeau should not be receiving a secret copy of the POEC report on Feb. 6. This is highly troubling because it means Canadians could have no assurance that Trudeau and the Liberal cabinet had not tampered with it before the Official Opposition Conservatives or the public — you and I — see it. .Chipiuk has already criticized the commission for accepting late and heavily censored documents from the Trudeau government that were included in the Inquiry. .She has also noted that Trudeau has not revealed what the legal opinion was of his decision to invoke the Emergencies [War Measures] Act on Feb. 14, 2022 to crush the Freedom Convoy protest. .“The feds refuse to release the legal opinion they claim justified the use of the Emergencies Act (EA); and (2) The #poec is giving Trudeau and his Cabinet a secret report on Feb 6 and Parliament & the public get the report on Feb 20. Does this sounds transparent to you?” the lawyer tweeted. .No, it doesn’t sound transparent to me and I’m sure it won’t to you readers. .I will be interviewing Chipiuk this week as we get closer to the Trudeau release date. .I have already reported that the Emergencies Act Inquiry did not end after Trudeau’s testimony but heard from a variety of "experts” for the next week or so about whether invoking the Emergencies [War Measures] Act was an appropriate response from the federal government. The media and the public were largely absent because they the commission did not promote these sessions. .Commission Justice Paul Rouleau needs to restore any legitimacy the Inquiry had and not give Trudeau an advance copy of the report. .His not doing so is vital for Canadian democracy. .As Chipiuk has noted, “Many have said they lost confidence in the Public Order Emergency Commission (#poec) because of how the feds behaved and how the #poec managed the inquiry.” .This looks like little better and nothing more than political damage control on behalf of a Trudeau government that has teetered from one personal, political and financial scandal to another: Remember the blackface routines, the SNC Lavalin disaster and the WE Charity catastrophe?.Trudeau must be held accountable and not whitewashed for invoking the Emergencies Act to punish his political opponents. Remember how he admitted that raw retribution was his real motivation for using this authoritarian legislation. .On the one-year anniversary of the start of the Freedom Convoy protests, people again came to Parliament Hill on the weekend, despite one of the worst snow storms in recent memory. I would like to know why these two youths in this video, carrying a Canadian flag and wearing "Save Canada" baseball caps, were handcuffed and arrested Sunday by Parliament Hill security. Is carrying a flag an offence? Why were they handcuffed by Parliamentary security when they were clearly standing on Wellington St.? .It’s actions like this that convince me we must demand the truth about Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act and we should be satisfied with nothing less.
