… In April, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino told the same committee that after weeks of blockades in downtown Ottawa and at several border crossings, the government was in regular consultation with law enforcement including the RCMP.
“The advice we received was to invoke the Emergencies Act,” Mendicino said at the time.
But Stewart said Mendicino didn’t mean police directly asked for the law to be used.
“I believe that the intention that he was trying to express was that law enforcement asked for the tools that were contained in the Emergencies Act,” Stewart said.
