Ontario files application for judicial review to quash summons for Premier Ford to testify at inquiry
CBC
Ontario has filed an application for judicial review seeking to quash a summons for Premier Doug Ford to testify at the Emergencies Act inquiry in Ottawa.
The Attorney General says in documents filed in Federal Court that "irreparable harm will occur" if Ford testifies.
The province cites parliamentary privilege that provides immunity for sitting members of government from testifying in court and at inquiries.
The Public Order Emergency Commission is examining the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act to end the so-called Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa and Windsor last winter.
On Monday, the commission summoned Ford and Jones to testify at the inquiry.
The province has asked the court to hear its urgent application next Tuesday.
P.E.I.'s Public Schools Branch is looking for 50 substitute bus drivers, and it'll be recruiting at three job fairs on Saturday, June 8. The job fairs are located at the Atlantic Superstore in Montague, Royalty Crossing in Charlottetown, and the bus parking lot of Three Oaks Senior High in Summerside. All three run from 9 a.m. until noon. Dave Gillis, the director of transportation and risk management for the Public Schools Branch, said the number of substitute drivers they're hiring isn't unusual. "We are always looking for more. Our drivers tend to have an older demographic," he said.