First up is the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. Their counsel is building up the case that the Act was unnecessary — that many of the wheels were in motion to clear the blockades prior to the Act being implemented, and that many of the most effective tactics were enabled by existing…
First up is the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. Their counsel is building up the case that the Act was unnecessary — that many of the wheels were in motion to clear the blockades prior to the Act being implemented, and that many of the most effective tactics were enabled by existing authority and legislation. She's highlighting that there was a feeling in various law enforcement agencies that they could have implemented a plan to retake Ottawa, and that there were more tools that hadn't yet been used.
Trudeau digging into this line of thinking a bit. Says "the ability of the police to resolve it was not there" and that while there may have been unused authorities, that was on the police for being unwilling/unable to use them.
The cross got a bit lost in the middle. But counsel gets to the $1,000,000 question at the end:
Counsel puts to Trudeau that the Emergencies Act threshhold "cannot be any lower than when CSIS proposes to surveil one person." Do you agree?
Annnnd we're into cross-examination. The fun bit!
First up is the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. Their counsel is building up the case that the Act was unnecessary — that many of the wheels were in motion to clear the blockades prior to the Act being implemented, and that many of the most effective tactics were enabled by existing authority and legislation. She's highlighting that there was a feeling in various law enforcement agencies that they could have implemented a plan to retake Ottawa, and that there were more tools that hadn't yet been used.
Trudeau digging into this line of thinking a bit. Says "the ability of the police to resolve it was not there" and that while there may have been unused authorities, that was on the police for being unwilling/unable to use them.
The cross got a bit lost in the middle. But counsel gets to the $1,000,000 question at the end:
Counsel puts to Trudeau that the Emergencies Act threshhold "cannot be any lower than when CSIS proposes to surveil one person." Do you agree?
"Yes," Trudeau says.
That's an interesting answer.