"... Many of them wanted to know on what basis the government decided to invoke the Emergencies Act in the first place. That information has not been made available to Parliament, most notably ongoing investigations and intelligence information.
Senator Dennis Glen Patterson, who left the Conservative Senators Group in protest over some members’ support of the so-called Freedom Convoy, said: “there is a certain amount of ‘trust us’ in the government’s justification of these extreme measures.”
Senator Patterson, who has since joined the Canadian Senators Group, worried that the joint parliamentary review committee would not have access to the unredacted security information to determine if the enactment of the Act was absolutely necessary.
“This is a serious step that we’re contemplating here today,” said Conservative Senator Elizabeth Marshall. “What exactly happened that the government decided to invoke the act?… Because it seemed like for three or four weeks, there was nothing, they were just tolerating it.”
She continued to ask why the government appeared “to be so late in assessing this monumental threat that they’re talking about.”
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/senate-growing-frustrated-by-pressure-to-rubber-stamp-emergencies-act
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