Unquestionably, there were other government actors involved in the general matter of whether to invoke the Emergencies Act, including the IRG, Cabinet, the Prime Minister, the Clerk of the Privy Council, the Prime Minister’s National Security and Intelligence Advisor, the Commissioner of the RCMP, and others. [...] The Clerk of the Privy Council has identified the Minister’s submission to the GIC, and the record of the Council’s decision, as constituting the record that was before the decision-maker. [...] Adler’s e-mail and the Memorandum, and the excerpts of the testimony of the Prime Minister and the Clerk, go beyond providing “general background” information to assist in “understanding the issues relevant to the judicial review.”29 The same can be said for the other proposed evidence, including documents related to the policing plan (Exhibits “E”, “F”, and “G”). [...] The Commission is mandated to examine and report on the circumstances that led to the declaration of a public order emergency and the measures taken by the GIC by means of the EMR and the EEMO, particularly with respect to the impact of certain identified factual issues. [...] thereto the name of any country recognized by the order to be a member of the Commonwealth or deleting therefrom the name of any country recognized by the order to be no longer a member of the Commonwealth.
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