The Emergencies Act Inquiry

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The Emergencies Act Inquiry, which probes whether the federal government was able to utilize such powers to bring the Ottawa occupation to an end, has been running for about three weeks now with plenty more testimony to come.

From this vantage point the one thing that is very clear is that no level of government was competent in ending the occupation until the Act was finally implemented. A municipal government that was led by a questionable police force, a provincial government that sat on its hands and continues to do so. And a federal government with a front row view of the occupation that paralyzed the city for more than three weeks.

Through it all, the residents of Ottawa were tormented by the hundreds of truckers and thousands of protesters who initially came to demonstrate against vaccine mandates.

Our Unpublished.vote question asks:

Was the Emergencies Act required to bring an end to the occupation?

• Yes
• No
• Unsure

You can log on and vote right now at Unpublished.ca—Our new portal for political discussion and debate.

Guests:

1. Lori Turnbull, Director School of Public Administration, Dalhousie University