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.
Testifying again Monday, this time publicly, Vigneault explained that he made his recommendation based on a legal interpretation from the Justice Department that the act’s definition of a threat to the security of Canada was broader than the one it refers to in the CSIS Act.Article content Vigneault also told the commission that the CSIS definition is badly out of date and should be updated.
CSIS breaks down IMVE into four categories of violence: xenophobic , anti-authority , gender-driven and “other grievance-driven” threats . Blair said closing off the border points at the Ambassador Bridge and in Coutts, Alta., amounted to an attack on critical infrastructure in his mind.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.He said the Ambassador Bridge in particular led to auto plant closures and was causing severe economic damage.
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