Emergencies Act commission gets extension to submit final report to government – National | 24CA News
The fee probing the federal authorities’s unprecedented use of the Emergencies Act in response to final yr’s “Freedom Convoy” protests has been granted extra time to finish its report.
The Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC) was initially given a deadline of Feb. 6 to submit its report back to cupboard, together with a ultimate deadline of Feb. 20 for the report back to be submitted to Parliament.
The latter date is absolutely the deadline below the Emergencies Act laws, which requires a fee launched in response to any invocation of the Act to submit its ultimate report on the circumstances that led to that invocation to Parliament and to the general public inside 360 days of the Act being revoked.
“The commission has requested more time to complete the report, so the (order-in-council) will be amended and the report will not be delivered to government on (Feb. 6). The report will be released by the legislated deadline,” a authorities supply instructed Global News. The supply spoke on background to debate the matter.
A spokesperson for the fee confirmed the POEC has suggested the Privy Council’s Office that “it is not able to provide its report in both official languages to the government by Feb. 6.”
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It is just not instantly clear if the report will nonetheless be delivered to cupboard first earlier than being distributed to Parliament.
The fee, headed by former Supreme Court of Canada Justice Paul Rouleau, held six weeks of public hearings final fall that heard from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, cupboard officers, police, protesters and Ottawa residents. Several consultants later supplied testimony on rights and freedoms, social media and different points as a part of the fee’s investigation.
Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act on Feb. 14, 2022, for the primary time because it turned regulation in 1988 after protesters related to the “Freedom Convoy” blockaded downtown Ottawa and key border crossings, inflicting weeks of disruptions to Canada’s commerce corridors, companies and residents in these communities.
The emergency powers had been then revoked on Feb. 23 after the protesters and blockades had been cleared.
— with information from Global’s Rachel Gilmore and the Canadian Press
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