Outnumbered by a Factor of Six
23 lawyers worked on Justin Trudeau's closing submission to the Emergencies Act inquiry. Four worked on the truckers' document.
I’m currently reading through all of the Closing Submissions filed with the Emergencies Act inquiry. There are 21 of them, totaling nearly 1,000 pages.
One of the best ways to understand a situation is to consider it from multiple points of view. Which makes these submissions invaluable. This is the last hurrah, the summation of each party’s position. The City of Ottawa has its says, as do various police forces, provincial governments, and a few constitutional lawyers.
The longest document was submitted by the Government of Canada and was prepared by no less than 23 lawyers. Whose time was paid for by you and me, the taxpayer. These people used their collective brainpower to try to make Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act seem reasonable.
By comparison, presumably due to funding constraints, only four lawyers worked on the protesting truckers’ closing submission.
So how would you feel if you were part of a team going up against another team that had six times as many people?
Thanks, Donna. Have only scanned the document - boy, what a lot of legalize! We seem to have been in so much danger! And our worldwide reputation was at stake! This is going to require a whole lot of convincing.
Thank you Donna for taking the time to read these documents and give us a well rounded picture. What we see depends on our point of view. That applies to physical sight as well as psychological and spiritual sight. As you delve into them watch for actual evidence of illegal activity that could trigger the act. Basing public action on the anticipated reactions of foreign entities is about as remote from rule of law as you can get. Lots of lawyers make for lots of words trying to explain nuances and extrapolate related legal principles but the final answer to “Did the protestors endanger Canada and require the act to protect the country?” has to be reducible to Yes or No. No matter how many push a lie it can't be drives across the line into the territory of truth.