The convoy occupation hearings reveal the paucity of government leadership

What struck me about the testimony is how perception, not analysis, shaped the judgments of the senior members of cabinet and the public service.

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland appears before the Public Order Emergency Commission at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa on Nov. 24. The main objective throughout the hearings was to project a rationale or an image of control out of what was essentially a trainwreck, writes Andrew Caddell. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

November 30, 2022

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—I have to admit, I didn't watch the now-concluded Public Order Emergency Commission hearings in Ottawa. But I read or listened to some of the prime minister’s testimony, as well as that of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and Justice Minister David Lam...

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