CSIS Director Told Trudeau Emergencies Act Was Needed Despite Seeing No National Security Threat Under Its Mandate

A woman reads the signboards placed by Freedom Convoy protesters near the Parliament Buildings in downtown Ottawa on Feb. 17, 2022 Jonathan Ren/The Epoch Times

The director of CSIS told the Public Order Emergency Commission on Nov. 21 that he advised the prime minister the Emergencies Act should be invoked, even though his agency had found that the protests of last winter didn’t pose any threats to national security as defined by its mandate.

“We did not make a determination that the event itself” was a threat to national security, said Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) Director David Vigneault.