The real Rouleau inquiry question: who was responsible for allowing the illegal trucker blockades to drag on?

The issue of responsibility has tended to get lost in the endless hours of legalistic testimony in the Emergencies Act review.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau testifies at the Public Order Emergency Commission on Nov. 25. The federal government was left with no option but to use emergency powers as a last-resort tactic to move the truckers who clearly had no intention of voluntarily doing so, writes Les Whittington. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

November 30, 2022

OTTAWA—Justice Paul Rouleau’s report on the use of the Emergencies Act, due next February, will make for fascinating reading.

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