Not All Tools Exhausted Before Invoking Emergencies Act, Says Ontario Police Commissioner

Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Commissioner Thomas Carrique said on Thursday he shares the “sentiment” his counterpart at the RCMP expressed about not all tools having been exhausted before the Emergencies Act was invoked.
Carrique was testifying before the Public Order Emergency Commission and was asked what he thought about RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki’s stance on the invocation.
The OPP Commissioner was presented with an email Lucki wrote to the chief of staff of Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino on Feb. 14.
“I am of the view that we have not yet exhausted tools that are already available through the existing legislation,” said Lucki….