Reflections from Crumbly Acres: senate hearings

That was another rainy day, with more to come. Maybe snow, but not a lot. The temperatures are up and down across the country. Vancouver needs rain, the east coast does not!

We have been busy. I relax following the Public Hearings on the Emergency Act. Lawyers, questions, answers, reports, sitting in the hot seat. It takes us away from our local woes. Parliament is required to hold hearings to determine whether they were right to call it.

Police infighting and a lack of communication between Ottawa Police, the Police Board, and Ottawa, the province and the federal governments, is dominating the headlines. The police chief denied that they knew the protestors would be there for a month. Yet, the OPP Superintendent had meeting reports of intelligence briefs that confirmed it.

The province did nothing for Ottawa residents, claiming they'd sent 1500 OPP members, but that was a lie. It was appalling.

Diane Deans, former chair
of the Ottawa Police Service Board, testifies.

It was interesting seeing Ottawa Mayor Watson testifying, in this his last week of work. JB testified his last week of work (2005) before a Senate Committee Transportation meeting. There was a transcript online, but I cannot find it again!

Lawyer for the Truck Convoy,
Tamara Lich on the right.
She was one of the leaders screaming at police.
She will be called as a witness.

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There was a fatal incident not far away, three cars with one dead, and two transported to hospital. This is a spot where people seem to speed and pass everyone, treating the highway as a Nascar track. It is so sad. The highway closed overnight.