The prime minister’s national security and intelligence adviser said Thursday the government was right to invoke the Emergencies Act to clear out the anti-vaccine mandate protest that took over downtown Ottawa last month because the protesters were “dug in” and “there’s no doubt [they] came to overthrow the government.”
“Whether their ability to do that was there, whether their understanding of how to do that was realistic, is actually irrelevant to what they wanted to do,” Jody Thomas said. “I think we have to think about it from that lens.”
Thomas, the former deputy minister of national defence, became one of Justin Trudeau’s top advisers almost
