'Time was up': Takeaways from PMO staff testimony on Trudeau's decision to invoke Emergencies Act

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On Thursday, a trio of top staffers in the Prime Minister's Office testified before the Public Order Emergency Commission examining the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act. Chief of Staff Katie Telford, Deputy Chief of Staff Brian Clow, and Director of Policy John Brodhead took the stand as a panel, testifying about the roles they played during the 'Freedom Convoy' protests and as senior officials were examining what options they had to address the Ottawa occupation and border blockades.

On Thursday, a trio of top staffers in the Prime Minister's Office testified before the Public Order Emergency Commission examining the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act.

The PMO report also noted that Trudeau's office "began to make security and travel arrangements for its staff, as well as the PM and ministers," and that by Jan. 27 PMO staff were advised to work from home for safety reasons, something the report indicates had "never been done before." He replied by first pointing out that there was an emergency debate about the convoy and the demonstrations a week before the invocation, and that the Act itself contains parliamentary processes upon invocation that they followed and felt were sufficient.

The PMO staff indicated that while they were doing speech prep earlier in the day around a plan to invoke the Act, the final decision had not been taken until later and that if they needed to change their plans and decide not to invoke, they could have pivoted their planned announcement quickly. Telford: "I would just add that it was extraordinarily important to the prime minister that he'd be true to what he set out in the beginning when he invoked the Act, in that it wasn't going to last one minute longer than absolutely necessary. And so that was the entire motivation behind when the revocation happened.

 

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Bunch of cry babies in ottawa I hear horns

CTV is in full Liberal protection mode this week. It's like nobody on Power Play read the Emergency Act text.

No Telford, you have to.understand what you putting out in an emergency It is your job

Dr Justin the violent discriminator Trudeau and his staff set an example that they do not need to provide answers when they are being questioned instead of having a public inquiry into the field vaccine mandates we're having a public inquiry into the failed emergencies Act

The goof troop invoked the Emergency Act over feelings and opinions. Not the law. 🙃

'time was up' is not a valid reason to invoke the act. The EA is very clear what criteria must be meant to invoke it.

They’re all a bunch of filthy crooks

A clown show of incompetance. Not one of these people should still be employed at any govt level.

Yes the slow moving “emergency” that had been ending everywhere except in a localized area of Ottawa which was embarrassing to Justin.

Fabrication of cover their ass lies.

No one trusts or believes you or these fools anymore

Here is someone that was important:

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