Among the zaniest nuggets of news to fall out of the Emergencies Act hearings this week was a text-message exchange in which exasperated federal cabinet ministers discussed mobilizing Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) tanks against last winter’s truck convoy protests centred on Ottawa. On Feb. 2, less than a week after the trucks showed up in the capital, Justice Minister David Lametti urged the public safety minister, Marco Mendicino, to act fast.
