OTTAWA — The federal government spent at least $3.7 million on outside lawyers for work related to its controversial use of the Emergencies Act to quash last year’s so-called “Freedom Convoy” protests, the justice department says.
In response to a formal written question that Conservative MP Dane Lloyd submitted in Parliament, the government revealed this month it had spent $3,756,458.66 as of May 4 to hire private lawyers for this work, which does not include money spent on the high-profile judicial inquiry into the unprecedented use of the Emergencies Act.
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