'I don't think anyone was more concerned than me': PM Trudeau tells convoy commission

Canadian PM Trudeau defends use of emergency powers in ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday defended invoking emergency powers to end anti-government protests that paralyzed the capital earlier this

Justin Trudeau gives Emergencies Act inquiry scathing assessment of police during ‘Freedom Convoy’ occupation

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he did not have confidence in the Ottawa police response to the self-styled “Freedom Convoy” protests even in the early days, and the RCMP did not inform him of any joint operational plan capable of ending the Ottawa blockades as he was on the verge of invoking the Emergencies Act. The prime minister gave a scathing description of what he saw as police mishandling of the crisis in the nation’s capital,…

Trudeau defends the use of emergency powers to quash the 'Freedom Convoy' protests

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday defended the decision to use 'emergency powers' to cull the truckers' "Freedom Convoy" demonstrations earlier this year which shook the country and his government.  "It wasn’t that they just wanted to be heard. They wanted to be obeyed. I am absolutely, absolutely serene and confident that I made the right choice in agreeing with the invocation," said Trudeau.

Trudeau defends use of emergency powers to end trucker protest

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday defended his decision to invoke emergency powers to end an anti-vaccine mandate trucker protest that paralyzed Ottawa last winter. Trudeau was the final witness to testify before a public commission investigating the Canadian government’s use of the Emergencies Act, which grants it additional powers. An inquiry is required…

Canada's Trudeau defends use of emergency powers in anti-government protests

The Canadian prime minister says invoking emergency powers in demonstrations that shut down Ottawa and blocked some border crossings earlier this year was unavoidable

Justin Trudeau gives Emergencies Act inquiry scathing assessment of police during ‘Freedom Convoy’ occupation

The prime minister gave a scathing description of what he saw as police mishandling of the crisis in the nation’s capital, which he said helped justify resorting to the emergency powers.