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The gong-show autopsy of the Freedom Convoy, playing out now as an inquest into the invoking of the Emergencies Act, shows more of why the protest lived rather than why it eventually died out.

On Day 5 of the Emergencies Act hearings, explosive cross examination of Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) intelligence officer Pat Morris confirmed that there was no intelligence that indicated the Freedom Convoy met the legal threshold required for the federal government to invoke the Emergencies Act.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) informed the Liberal cabinet that there were no signs of foreign financing or state actors involved in the Freedom Convoy only days before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took the unprecedented decision to invoke the Emergencies Act. 

On Day 4 of the Emergencies Act hearings Ottawa mayor Jim Watson told the Public Order Emergency Commission that neither he nor the City of Ottawa requested the invocation of the Emergencies Act.

We're on the fourth day of hearings into Justin Trudeau's invocation of the Emergencies Act and so far no one has provided any evidence of an actual emergency.

On Day 3 of the Emergencies Act hearings, City of Ottawa officials testified that federal Parliamentary Protective Service officers blocked efforts from “good faith” convoy leaders in moving trucks out of residential neighbourhoods and onto Wellington Street. 

On the show today, Rupa is joined by Eva Chipiuk of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms. She is the co-legal counsel with Keith Wilson for the Peckford Travel Ban Challenge, Tamara Lich and the Freedom Convoy.

Lawyers representing the Alberta government said in their opening remarks before the Public Order Emergency Commission on Thursday that Ottawa’s use of the Emergencies Act set a “dangerous precedent”. 

Convoy organizers Tamara Lich, Benjamin Dichter and Tom Marazzo will be among those given an opportunity to testify before the Commission beginning on Thursday.