Public Order Emergency Commission gets underway under ‘extraordinary time pressures’

Federal and provincial governments lay out battle lines over the feds’ decision to invoke the Emergencies Act for the first time in its 34-year existence.

Commissioner Paul Rouleau, pictured on Oct. 13, 2022, delivering his opening remarks at the Public Order Emergency Commission at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

October 13, 2022

The highly anticipated Public Order Emergency Commission’s fact-finding hearings are underway in Ottawa, with Commissioner Paul Rouleau pointing out that this inquiry will have to deliver in 300 days what previous commissions have taken three or four years to delive...

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