Ottawa Police Service lawyer David Migicovsky defended the police response during inquiry studying the invocation of the federal Emergencies act
Convoy protesters in Canada’s capital inflicted an unexpected level of “community violence and social trauma” on the city’s residents, the Ottawa police told an inquiry studying the February invocation of the federal Emergencies act.
The commission is tasked with assessing whether the blockades and protests that gripped Canada in February, 2022 met the crisis threshold required to trigger the act. Paul Champ, a lawyer representing Ottawa businesses and residents reminded the commission that the capital city’s downtown is also home to about 15,000 residents and public schools. Residents and employees in the downtown were subjected to earsplitting air horns, harassment, street blockages and “general lawlessness,” he said.
According to the Emergencies Act, a public order emergency can be declared when threats to the security of Canada are so serious that they constitute a national crisis that cannot be dealt with under any other existing law. The Conservative Party, Bloc Quebecois and some legal and security experts have argued that the threshold was not met.
“The government witnesses will outline the deliberate step-by-step process in which careful consideration was given to all the available options which led to the declaration of a public order emergency as a matter of last resort,” Mr. MacKinnon told the commission. The government’s approach was “proportional, effective and time limited.”
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