Doug Ford Recommends Using The Emergencies Act To Prevent Further Investigation Into Use Of Emergencies Act

By Andrew Scott

Ottawa -  As the Public Order Emergency Commission begins its second of a six-week public inquiry into the government’s use of Canada’s “Emergencies Act” to disperse the so-called “Freedom Convoy” protests of last winter, Ontario Premier Doug Ford is reported to be encouraging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to once again use the Emergencies Act to shut down any further investigation and public insight.

While Ford admits that he was not asked to testify in the currently underway inquiry, he acknowledges just how good it felt to read in the papers that he, at 5'8," and the 6'2" Trudeau stood “shoulder to shoulder” on the usage of the Emergencies Act when it was first invoked in February 2022, and does not want a public inquiry to reveal either his true height, or what he really thinks of Trudeau and his policies.

“I’m telling you folks,” states Ford while eating a Kawartha Dairy ice cream cone on a cold Ontario October morning, “Politics is a game of inches, not feet, and so while it is true that I once stated that Trudeau was ‘totally incompetent,’ and that he ‘couldn’t be the floor sweeper’ at any company that I owned, I have since become quite intoxicated by the media suggestion that I am as towering, and perhaps as boyishly charming a figure as J.T., and I’m reticent to support any public inquiry that would provide insight into the contrary.”

Andrew Scott is a musician and writer who lives in Toronto in a house amongst children, antiquated technology of yesteryear and many, many instruments. Instagram, writing, poetry, more poetry.