When the Public Order Emergency Commission is as much spectacle as it is practical

What do you do when your witnesses have a slippery grasp on the meaning of 'truth'?
Freedom Convoy organizers Keith Wilson, left, Tamara Lich, Chris Barber, Tom Marazzo and counsel Eva Chipiuk, pictured on Nov. 2, 2022, walking to the Public Emergency Order Commission at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa.
If you tuned into the Public Order Emergency Commission at all this week, you might have caught one of the notorious convoy organizers on the stand. It wouldn't have been hard: the commission had 13 organizers on the schedule to testify as witnesses in its inquiry into the government's enactment of ...

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