87 Percent of Federal Records on Freedom Convoy Were Not Disclosed in Inquiry, Report Says

The majority of the federal records connected to the Freedom Convoy were not disclosed in the 2022 inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act against protesters, and will not be made public for years, according to a report by the privy council. Roughly 87 percent of the 31,844 documents given to a judicial inquiry on the government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act have been kept confidential, for a total of 27,815 restricted documents, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter. The records labelled confidential by the Public Order Emergency Commission include 16,632 classified as “secret” and 372 as “top secret.” Only commission lawyers and the judge leading the inquiry had complete access to the documents, according to the report....