Canadian Commission on Final Report of Ottawa Trucker Protests

“After careful reflection, I have concluded that the very high threshold required for the invocation of the act was met,” said Paul Rouleau about the Canadian federal government’s use of emergency powers to end a trucker protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Mr. Rouleau is the commissioner of the Public Order Emergency Commission, which began an inquiry last April into the use of the Emergencies Act, which was passed in 1988 but had never before been used. Moreover, Commissioner Rouleau said the police and government could have better anticipated the protest and made recommendations for handling similar incidents in the future, which are described in his written report. The month-long protest, known as the “Freedom Convoy,” consisted of hundreds of trucks blocking the Canada-U.S. border and the capital city of Ottawa during January and February of 2022. close