Alberta received no help from Ottawa to clear border blockades until after the crisis had passed, inquiry hears.
And a provincial minister accused his federal counterpart of lying about the role the state of emergency played in ending the blockade in Coutts, Alta.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.
On Thursday text messages released by the inquiry revealed that Alberta Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver accused federal Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair of lying about whether the Emergencies Act was used to clear the blockade. “If we were going to go and remove all of the protesters and remove the blockage, if the RCMP were to do that, that would absolutely have to be in place,” Degrand said in his testimony.tap here to see other videos from our teamAlberta looked all over the province, in British Columbia and Saskatchewan and even the United States, but tow companies refused to help. Some where sympathetic to the protest, others were paid by protesters to stay out of it, Degrand said.
The undelivered letter said the province had all the legal authority it needed to deal with the protest.
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