What next for the Rouleau Commission report
The media are plowing some increasingly familiar grooves with regard to the Rouleau Commission report, including on the future of the Emergencies Act, the political fallout from the report, and a reading of the implications of Justice Rouleau’s finding that the Government met the high legal thresholds for invoking the Act.
I want to take you to some different places, in more detailed analysis to come. There are three volumes and something over 1,000 pages to digest, so please be patient.
For a first overview analysis, written to meet a rush deadline following the release of the report on Friday afternoon, here is my Op Ed for the Globe and Mail.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-what-the-emergencies-act-inquiry-report-got-right-and-wrong/
Public Order emergencies are, by definition, national security crises. The main thrust of my analysis to come will be to see whether the Rouleau Commission gives us a full picture of the crisis presented by the so-called “Freedom Convoy,” and whether its recommendations match the circumstance presented by the protests, which was at the heart of the mandate given to the Inquiry by Parliament in its 1988 legislation.