February 17, 2023
Cara Zwibel, Director of Fundamental Freedoms for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA), made the following statement:
While we disagree with the Commissioner’s conclusion that the legal threshold for invoking the Act was met, we want to thank Justice Rouleau and all of the Commission’s staff for their work. The Commission process contributed to greater transparency and understanding of what occurred in February of 2022 for all Canadians.
The inquiry is one of many accountability mechanisms. We launched a judicial review precisely because we believed that would be the best venue to test the government’s claims
