Justice Paul Rouleau says the Canada Border Services Agency made a foul scenario worse when it mishandled the announcement of a vaccine mandate for truckers early final yr, amid rampant anger and false info across the pandemic.
Rouleau identified the company’s mistake in his greater than 2,000-page report launched final Friday, which concluded that the federal Liberal authorities was justified in invoking the Emergencies Act final winter to reply to “Freedom Convoy” protests in downtown Ottawa.
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Rouleau’s activity included exploring what contributed to the zeal that noticed hundreds of demonstrators take over the streets round Parliament Hill and block a number of border crossings with the United States.
He primarily based his findings on a whole bunch of hours of testimony and hundreds of paperwork submitted as proof through the Public Order Emergency Commission’s hearings final fall.
Rouleau’s closing report says that though the inquiry was not targeted on the federal government response to COVID-19, Canadians felt confused by a few of the messaging from officers.
It singles out an error by the border providers company final January, when it launched an announcement saying unvaccinated Canadian truckers wouldn’t have to quarantine after crossing the border, solely to concern a correction reversing that place the subsequent day.
