Federal government met the threshold to invoke Emergencies Act: Rouleau

Repeated efforts by Ford and other ministers to shift the responsibility for dealing with the protests in Ottawa squarely onto the federal government were part of a political and policing breakdown that ultimately required the invocation of the Emergencies Act, wrote Justice Paul Rouleau in his long-awaited report into the use of the law.

�The province is ultimately responsible for effective policing in Ottawa,� Rouleau wrote.

�Given that the city and its police service were clearly overwhelmed, it was incumbent on the province to become visibly, publicly, and wholeheartedly engaged from the outset.�