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micropainter Feb 17, 2023

The Emergencies Act report says Doug Ford basically "abandoned" Ottawa during the Ottawa Occupation.

Where was the Premier of Alberta and the UCP during the Coutts Blockade?

#EmergenciesActInquiry #Coutts #ableg #yyc #yeg #cdnpoli #CouttsBlockade #Ottawa #OttawaOccupation #EAInquiry

Border protests in Coutts, Alta., a 'concrete manifestation' of risk to Canada: Rouleau | CBC News

Events that transpired during a 17-day protest near the border town of Coutts, Alta., were central to Justice Paul Rouleau's determination that the federal government had met the threshold to invoke the Emergencies Act.

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micropainter Feb 17, 2023

I'm old enough to remember UCP MLAs publicly supporting the illegal Coutts Blockade.

"The situation in Coutts involved a hardened cell of individuals armed to the teeth with lethal firearms, who possessed a willingness to go down with the cause." #cdnpoli #ableg #yyc #Coutts #CouttsBlockade #Ottawa #OttawaOccupation #EAInquiry #EmergenciesAct

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Border protests in Coutts, Alta., a 'concrete manifestation' of risk to Canada: Rouleau | CBC News

CBC

@jbf1755 we see the same issues here in Canada, whether what happened in Ottawa, Windsor, and Coutts was a truckers’ protest, a convoy, an occupation, or an attempted insurrection. Words matter. It was clear from the EA Inquiry that it was an occupation, and that there were insurrectionists present and primed to act.

#CanPoli #EAInquiry #Occupation #EmergencyActInquiry #EA #IStandWithTrudeau

𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒆®Nov 29, 2022

👇🇨🇦"Social media tools were key to 'Freedom Convoy' protest, expert tells inquiry" #EAInquiry #SocialMedia
#FreeDumbConvoy
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/social-media-tools-were-key-to-freedom-convoy-protest-expert-tells-inquiry-1.6172691

Social media tools were key to 'Freedom Convoy' protest, expert tells inquiry

Cybersecurity experts say a federal inquiry should think of social media as the central nervous system of the "Freedom Convoy" protest in Ottawa last winter.

CTVNews

Murray M Nov 28, 2022

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Doug Ford's lawyers argued that he couldn't testify at the EA Inquiry because he has a day job.

And yet during the entire week of testimony he didn't even bother to show up at his day job in the #Ontario legislature. Not one day.

#OnPoli #EmergencyActInquiry #EAInquiry #Ottawa #NoReasonGiven

GG 🇨🇦 (@[email protected])

Doug Ford's lawyers argued that he couldn't testify at the EA Inquiry because he has a day job. And yet during the entire week of testimony he didn't even bother to show up at his day job in the #Ontario legislature. Not one day. #OnPoli #EmergencyActInquiry #EAInquiry #Ottawa #NoReasonGiven

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TheGentYYC Nov 26, 2022

All of which brings me to (in my admittedly meandering & roundabout way - you can see how these things get up 100 posts) to Prime Minister Trudeau's testimony before the #EmergenciesActInquiry (heretofore referred to as the #EAInquiry) and what remains to be done if we indeed want to prevent anything similar from ever happening again.

(hint: the EAI on its own ain't gonna cut it)

GG Nov 26, 2022

Doug Ford's lawyers argued that he couldn't testify at the EA Inquiry because he has a day job.

And yet during the entire week of testimony he didn't even bother to show up at his day job in the #Ontario legislature. Not one day.

#OnPoli #EmergencyActInquiry #EAInquiry #Ottawa #NoReasonGiven

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CaraC Coordinates (she/her)Nov 26, 2022

@chad I completely agree. I don't see there was any other solution than the #EmergenciesAct , unfortunately. I live in Ottawa, know people who had to leave their home in the red zone during the occupation, and followed along with the #EAInquiry every day. I felt such relief when the feds stepped up to clear it. I can't see me ever truly forgiving Ottawa police or Ontario leadership for inaction.

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micropainter Nov 26, 2022

"The lawyer who insisted he wasn't a cat was way better." #EmergencyAct #EAInquiry