When We Conclude That Trudeau Is A Narcissistic Coward Who Will Never Forgive Anyone For Making Him Run Away, It All Becomes Easier to Understand

Justin lost face and power.

THAT was the real "crime": 

The OPP commissioner told MPs in March that force intelligence concluded the Freedom Convoy posed a “threat to national security.” His own head of intelligence told a public inquiry otherwise Wednesday.

Documents tabled at the public inquiry investigating the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act also appear to contradict information provided by acting Ottawa Police Service chief Steve Bell to MPs regarding firearm-related charges against Freedom Convoy participants.

On March 24, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) commissioner Thomas Carrique declared to members of the federal security committee that the service’s intelligence unit, the Provincial Operational Intelligence Bureau (POIB), identified the Freedom Convoy occupying Ottawa last winter as a “threat to national security” on Feb. 7.

“This was identified as a threat to national security, and we were able to utilize a number of the powers in the Emergencies Act,” Carrique told MPs when asked if he supported the federal government’s controversial use of the exceptional act to end the protests on Feb. 14.

But the head of the OPP’S POIB, Supt. Pat Morris, appeared to directly contradict his boss’ assertion to MPs during testimony in front of the Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC) this week.

He repeatedly told counsel that his bureau never received “credible” information that the Freedom Convoy posed a direct threat to national security, nor did he receive any from intelligence partners Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) or the RCMP’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams (INSET).

The closest it ever got to that was in a Feb. 7 report in which it warned of the “potential” for the protest to become a national security threat if a series of hypothetical events occurred throughout the country. He said none of those events came to fruition, so the potential threat never materialized.

But he admitted that CSIS and INSET did not share the view at the time that the Freedom Convoy posed even a potential national security threat. “INSET and CSIS concur that there are no national security concerns. Confirmed today,” Morris wrote to colleagues on Feb. 7.

The apparent discrepancy is important considering the commission’s mission to establish if the federal government was justified in invoking the Emergencies Act on Feb. 14 to deal with the Ottawa protests.

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“How unfortunate that #cdnmedia are not being called to testimony under oath and threat of perjury. @TorontoStar and an unnamed source reported there were loaded shotguns in the trucks. No guns. But Cabinet wanted that message out.” #cdnpoli #EmergenciesActInquiry https://t.co/0148OQ7oTT

— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) October 21, 2022

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Senior Ontario Provincial Police officers believed it was clear that demands from the so-called “Freedom Convoy” could never be met, but “political interference and deal-making” made their jobs harder during the protest occupation around Parliament Hill.

The political and law enforcement challenges of ending the convoy protests — and turf wars — were central to testimony and evidence Friday at the federal inquiry.

 

Political interference? You don't say!

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Black pill confirmed: The Hon. Brian Packford’s Charter challenge has been dismissed for “mootness”. A month after the hearing, in an order with no reasons due to “time constraints”. As though the parties had not already started preparing for the hearing. An absolute injustice! pic.twitter.com/e8IDMukYPd

— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) October 21, 2022