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A Sudden Season
From: An Emergency in Ottawa
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In this chapter, Wells examines the Roulea Commission, which held public hearings in Ottawa in November 2022 to scrutinize Canada’s invocation of the Emergencies Act, declared by the Trudeau government in February 2022 in response to the Freedom Convoy that occupied downtown Ottawa.
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Paul Wells
Award-winning author Paul Wells was a regular visitor to the inquiry. Witnesses described layer on layer of dysfunction and acrimony in every organization that converged on Parliament Hill — three levels of government, three police forces, and the protesters themselves. How does a society make crucial decisions when everyone is exhausted, nothing works, and the noise from the truck horns and the shouting is deafening? And how do the protagonists regroup to make their case in the sterile, weird environment of a public inquiry? That’s the story inside-a-story of the Emergency in Ottawa.
