‘Too much confusion’ at political, police levels during trucker protest, says former Harper-era minister Fantino

Police, pictured Feb. 17, 2022, arresting a man on Wellington Street during the Freedom Convoy’s occupation of downtown Ottawa.The story link will be added automatically.Twelve years ago, in 2010, future federal Conservative cabinet minister Julian Fantino was commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police when G8 leaders met in the small town of Huntsville, Ont., tucked in Muskoka country.

“There was a lot of confusion about who was in charge and what information was coming to decision-makers,” said Fantino, who has been keeping an eye on proceedings of the federal Public Order Emergency Commission, the mandate of which is to examine and assess the federal government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act, and to conduct a policy review that could include whether any amendments to the legislation are required.

“In a crisis, you can’t have multiple entities in charge,” said Fantino, who served as chief of the Toronto Police Service from 2000 to 2005. “There has to be someone to call the shots and have a unified approach.” Freedom Convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, pictured Nov. 1, 2022, at the Emergencies Act Inquiry in Ottawa.Green said hearings of the Public Order Emergency Commission—which the federal government established in April to inquire into the circumstances that led to the declaration of emergency that was in place between Feb.

On the parliamentary review, Green said the prime minister has “a duty to testify as to what he knew, when he knew it, and what he did about it.” “This issue is important enough that we take our time to be able to fully contemplate everything that’s been disclosed over the last few weeks of the inquiry, and that, moving forward, we’re studying the issue from the primary fact and not simply talking points and innuendo that have been floating around from the media,” said Green.

Meanwhile, during the security crisis Ottawa experienced earlier this year, Fantino said the “most critical” need is for police to have “good intelligence,” along with “a good management team,” like he relied on for decision-making during the G8 in June 2010.

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