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RCMP neither requested nor planned for Emergencies Act powers, commissioner tells MPs, Senators
By Stuart Benson May 11, 2022
Parliamentarians questioned whether invocation of the Emergencies Act constituted 'a failure of police,' pointing to a double standard between police handling of trucker protestors compared to the treatment of pipeline protestors.
RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki appeared May 10 before the joint committee reviewing the government's invocation of the Emergencies Act, where she told MPs and Senators that while her agency was consulted, it never requested or recommended the act's use to break up the winter convoy protests. Screenshot courtesy of CPAC
The Emergencies Act helped reduce the size of the so-called Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa before the police action that finally cleared the blockade, but those powers were not requested, nor needed, to clear out other protests around the country, according to RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki.
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