CSIS head advised Trudeau to invoke Emergencies Act during convoy, inquiry hears | Globalnews.ca:

The head of CSIS recommended Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoke the
Emergencies Act during the so-called ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests earlier
this year, an inquiry into the decision heard.

David Vigneault, the head of the Canadian Security Intelligence
Service, told the Public Order Emergencies Commission about his advice
to the prime minister during a closed-door interview earlier this month,
according to an unclassified summary.

That summary, released on
Monday morning, said Vigneault did not believe the convoy posed a
national security threat under the CSIS Act but that invoking the
Emergencies Act was still necessary.

“Mr. Vigneault explained that
based on both his understanding that the Emergencies Act definition of
threat to the security of Canada was broader than the CSIS Act, as well
as based on his opinion of everything he had seen to that point, he
advised the Prime Minister of his belief that it was indeed required to
invoke the Act,” the summary of Vigneault’s interview with the
commission read.