Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was questioned on Friday over his decision to invoke rarely-used emergency powers to end protests that shut down the capital in early 2022, in a rare appearance by a sitting prime minister at a public inquiry.
The "Freedom Convoy" demonstrations against public health measures including vaccine mandates paralyzed Ottawa and blocked some border crossings for weeks in January and February.
"I am absolutely, absolutely serene and confident that I made the right choice in agreeing with the invocation," Trudeau told the commission. Trudeau said he would not have invoked the emergency powers if anyone had convinced him the situation could have been resolved without them. The act gave the government temporary powers it does not normally have, including the ability to impose restrictions on public assembly and to mobilize federal support for local and provincial police.
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