‘Clumsy and messy’: Mendicino weathers calls to walk over murky Emergencies Act rationale

The murkiness of the minister's explanation is a reflection of what was happening during the protests when diagnosing the magnitude of the problem, and the solution to it wasn't so black and white, says Tim Powers.

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino's comments are a reason to doubt whether the legal requirements were met in invoking the Emergencies Act, but determining whether that threshold was met isn't as simple as finding out whether law enforcement requested it, says law professor Bruce Ryder.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia.

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BY STUART BENSON

June 15, 2022

The explanation that Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino had been “misunderstood” in saying that law enforcement had requested the invocation of the Emergencies Act has done nothing to quell the controversy surrounding the decision—but it's not likely to be a ...

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