The final report of the Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC), investigating whether the federal government was justified in invoking emergency powers to suppress the anti-vaccine mandate "Freedom Convoy" protest, has been tabled in the House of Commons.

• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act in February last year in the face of a protest movement which had expanded from a trucker rally into a broader movement opposing the federal government's COVID-19 policies.
• The protest led to a shutdown of key border crossings with the US, causing weeks of disruption to trade on both sides of the border.
• Trudeau said at a press conference yesterday that he was confident the report would uphold the “credibility” of his government's decision.
• Trudeau: “We needed to take action a year ago, and we did so in a measured, responsible, time-limited way. I look forward to reviewing the commission’s report tomorrow morning and speaking about it with Canadians tomorrow afternoon.”
• Foreign Policy, describing the move to quash the protests as "one of the largest law enforcement operations in Canada’s history" wrote that the government response "harmed confidence in [Trudeau's] leadership, both at home and abroad."