RCMP Says Emergencies Act Was Not Needed to Clear Border Blockades

Anti-mandate demonstrators gather as a truck convoy blocks the highway to the busy U.S. border crossing in Coutts, Alta., on Jan. 31, 2022. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press

The RCMP commissioner says that no powers granted by the invoking of the Emergencies Act were used to clear the border blockades in February.

“In RCMP jurisdiction, we successfully used a measured approach and existing legislation to resolve border blockades,” Commissioner Brenda Lucki told the special joint committee of parliamentarians reviewing the declaration of emergency on May 10.