‘Recruiting ground’ and ‘martyrdom’ concerns: Insights from documents provided to convoy commission so far
Less than one week into the Public Order Emergency Commission’s hearings examining the federal government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act, hundreds of documents have already been made public.
While a considerable portion of the documents provided to the commission so far are copies of pandemic public health orders and statements, as well as clippings from media coverage of the ‘Freedom Convoy,’ there have also been transcripts or summaries of high-level phone calls, email and text message exchanges, and internal reports, with likely much more to come.
Ontario Provincial Police intelligence officer Pat Morris says that the OPP "produced no intelligence to indicate that these individuals (protesters) would be armed."
Morris labels the coverage of potential firearms at the protest as "hyperbole." pic.twitter.com/SCWiCgIntx
— True North (@TrueNorthCentre) October 19, 2022
