# Ottawa Dopers, how are you doing?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 5, 2022, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ottawa-dopers-how-are-you-doing/958960 "2022-02-05T14:33:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ottawa-dopers-how-are-you-doing/958960/221 "2023-02-18T03:41:39Z")

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And the judicial commission charged with reviewing whether it was necessary to invoke the _Emergencies Act_ has given its decision:

> **[Federal government met the threshold to invoke Emergencies Act: Rouleau | CBC...](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poec-report-released-friday-1.6750919)**
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> Commissioner Paul Rouleau says the federal government met the "very high" threshold needed to invoke the Emergencies Act last winter, citing "a failure in policing and federalism."

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**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ottawa-dopers-how-are-you-doing/958960/222 "2023-02-18T04:34:31Z")

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No real surprise. They really tore into the OPS and Ford’s government as well. Of course, the Fascist Convoy is already howling that it was fixed, the judge is a Liberal, blah blah blah.

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**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ottawa-dopers-how-are-you-doing/958960/223 "2023-02-18T15:46:22Z")

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> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#):
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> They are entitled assholes.
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> That’s all.

Yep, that’s the official conclusion.

> **[Emergencies Act report finds that assholes were indeed assholes](https://www.thebeaverton.com/2023/02/emergencies-act-report-finds-that-assholes-were-indeed-assholes/)**
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> OTTAWA - The highly-anticipated Emergencies Act Inquiry report by Commissioner Paul Rouleau finds that the Trudeau Government's invocation of the act did indeed meet the legislation's high "asshole threshold".

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