CSIS\u0027 recommendation to invoke the Emergencies Act is a significant boost to the federal government’s case.
Canadian Security Intelligence Service director David Vigneault told the Emergencies Act inquiry during a secret hearing that he advised Trudeau to invoke the act “based on his opinion of everything he had seen to that point” during a meeting on Feb. 13, the day before it was invoked.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
The Emergencies Act requires that there be a threat to the security of Canada as defined by section two of the CSIS Act. Vigneault also told the commission that section two definition is badly out of date and should be updated. Vigneault said CSIS was not “investigating the convoy,” but was monitoring individuals it was already surveilling who may have been attending, as well as new “potential threats” who could be radicalized and emerge through the protests.
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