Perrin Beatty, architect of Emergencies Act not yet convinced feds were right to invoke it over Freedom Convoy

In addition to court challenges and a special parliamentary committee looking into the government's first-ever invocation of the Emergencies Act, an independent 'Public Order Emergency Commission' led by Ontario appeals court judge justice Paul Rouleau is now in place to examine the decision making of authorities and the events of February's convoys.
A line of big rigs pictured parked on Wellington Street as part of the 'Freedom Convoy' on Feb. 17, 2022.
With multiple inquiries into the first-ever invocation of the Emergencies Act by the federal government now in full swing, the chief architect of the legislation, former Progressive Conservative federal solicitor general Perrin Beatty, said he's not yet convinced that the invocation of the act in Fe...

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