At the conclusion of week one, of the six-week inquiry, there is one thing that should be blatantly obvious to everyone; the implementation of the Emergencies Act was unjustified.

Of course, those of us who were boots on the ground didn’t need an inquiry to tell us this, we witnessed first-hand the complete opposite of what the government and media were portraying.

We’re thankful however, that this inquiry is happening and shedding light on what we’ve been saying all along.

According to Ottawa Mayor, Jim Watson, Premier Doug Ford and Sylvia Jones, the Solicitor General felt “sitting around a table” was a “waste of time”.

A “waste of time” to hear from the very people who these so-called politicians work for? A “waste of time” to hear from their constituents about the hardships they were facing by not being able to work and put food on their table. How absurd. That could have prevented all of this in the first place.

We’ve also learned the Intelligence Services such as CSIS and Police Services saw no evidence of foreign connections or extremist violence and there was no credible evidence that foreign actors were financially supporting the convoy.

So, it begs to question, on what evidence did our Prime Minister invoke the EA? The very Act that allowed for violence from various Police Services.
Violence that wasn’t present, until the EA was invoked and Police aggressively moved in on citizens standing for their Charter-protected rights to peacefully assemble against the forcing of a medical intervention to keep their livelihoods.

Regardless of what side you stand on in this debate, this is exactly why these government officials need to provide answers to their justification as well as be held accountable for those decisions.