Government to un-redact text messages, PMO staff notes at Emergencies Act inquiry | 24CA News

Politics
Published 02.12.2022
Government to un-redact text messages, PMO staff notes at Emergencies Act inquiry | 24CA News
Politics

Lawyers for “Freedom Convoy” organizers have gained their bid to get entry to unredacted variations of 20 paperwork on the Public Order Emergency Act.

Lawyer Brendan Miller argued the blacked-out parts shouldn’t be coated by parliamentary privilege

Commissioner Paul Rouleau speaks with Freedom Corp. counsel Brendan Miller at a Public Order Emergency Commission listening to in Ottawa on Nov. 22, 2022. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

Lawyers for “Freedom Convoy” organizers have gained their bid to get entry to unredacted variations of 20 paperwork on the Public Order Emergency Act.

Lawyer Brendan Miller utilized to have the general public inquiry launch data in authorities paperwork that it had blacked-out, arguing the data shouldn’t be protected by parliamentary privilege.

Commissioner Paul Rouleau says the Government of Canada has agreed to launch the unredacted paperwork.

The paperwork embody written notes and textual content exchanges that belong to the prime minister’s workers.

Today marks the ultimate day of seven weeks of fee fact-finding and coverage hearings, and the commissioner and his crew have till early February to provide their closing report.

That means any new data is unlikely to be put to witnesses, however could be thought of by the commissioner and included in written arguments by the assorted teams that took half within the fee.

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Laura Osman is a reporter for The Canadian Press.