Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

So far, the various justifications the Trudeau government has given for invoking the Emergencies Act against the Freedom Convoy protests have fallen apart.

Consider the record to date.

Neither the RCMP nor Ottawa police asked the federal government to invoke the act, contrary to claims by Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino.

There’s no doubt about it: Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino misled Parliament.

Oh, maybe the words Mendicino spoke in front of Parliamentary committees don’t meet the precise, legal definition of misleading the House and Senate. Maybe they don’t rise to the level required to expel him.

But at best “misleading” is the polite word for the minister’s justification of the Liberals’ use of the Emergencies Act back in February.

I have today a grim and possibly, in the current moment, arcane subject: the doctrine of ministerial responsibility in the parliamentary system. It is possible, I suppose, to have chosen another topic even more leaden and esoteric, one guaranteed to drive readers away and usher them to the much superior enlightenments of Lord Black. Such as, for example, the CBC’s concept of comedy.

In every government, there are cabinet ministers who cause us to roll our eyes in disbelief pretty much every time they open their mouths. In Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet, for many Canadians, that’s Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino.

… In April, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino told the same committee that after weeks of blockades in downtown Ottawa and at several border crossings, the government was in regular consultation with law enforcement including the RCMP.

“The advice we received was to invoke the Emergencies Act,” Mendicino said at the time.

But Stewart said Mendicino didn’t mean police directly asked for the law to be used.

“I believe that the intention that he was trying to express was that law enforcement asked for the tools that were contained in the Emergencies Act,” Stewart said.