OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Commissioner Brenda Lucki wrote to the federal government that powers found in the Emergencies Act, such as the ability to jam phones, could prove useful in crushing the peaceful Freedom Convoy.
Blacklock’s Reporter published an article on Thursday outlining the contents of an email from Lucki to a cabinet aide in the lead up to the invocation of the EA.
“Cell phone disruption” would prove “useful to have on the enforcement front should the Emergencies Act be triggered,” she wrote.
She also wrote that the EA could be used in “securing of protected places to prevent protests in these areas, e.g. BC Ferry terminals, airports, ports, rail and rapid transit stations.”
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Despite her appreciation of the Emergencies Act’s power to jam phones and create bubble-zones, Lucki also wrote that she was “of the view that we have not yet exhausted all available tools that are already available through the existing legislation.”
The EA requires that all existing policing tools and legal tools be exhausted before employing such an extraordinary measure.
Lucki’s statement, which supports the notion that the EA was unjustified on legal and policing grounds, joins the collection of other statements unearthed by policing officials throughout the national EA hearings that affirm the same sentiment.
Information that contradicts the federal government’s narrative that the EA was justified includes the recent revelation that tow-trucks were already prepared to move the trucks if necessary, as well as evidence that claims of foreign funding were false.