Trudeau adviser ‘reconsidered’ legal definition of a security ‘threat’ to justify using Emergencies Act
by Jack Bingham
‘Witnesses have now stated that the government declared an emergency using criteria found outside the confines of the definition of the Emergencies Act.’
(LifeSiteNews) — The Emergencies Act (EA) hearings have revealed that Justin Trudeau’s national security adviser broadened the scope of what constitutes a “threat to security of Canada” to justify using the EA against the Freedom Convoy.
During the Public Order Emergency Commission’s Thursday hearing, it was revealed that last fall the prime minister’s national security adviser (NSIA) Jody Thomas – along with other officials in a panel – told commission lawyers that while the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) did not consider the Freedom Convoy protest to be a threat to national security – a prerequisite for invoking the EA – they were of the opinion that the definition of a “threat” to security needed to be “reconsidered,” and therefore it was permissible to use the EA.
“The panel explained that security threats have evolved in the 40-year period since the enactment of the Emergencies Act,” reads a summary of the explanation given by Thomas and the other officials.
“The panel concluded that the reference to a threat to the security of Canada as defined by section 2 of the CSIS Act in section 16 of the Emergencies Act should be reconsidered.”