Cabinet’s 2022 use of emergency powers against Freedom Convoy protestors cost the Department of Public Safety more than $73 million, new records show. Expenses were not finalized.

“Cost associated with fiscal year 2023-2024 are still to be determined,” the department wrote in an Inquiry Of Ministry tabled in the Commons. The cost to date of $73,550,568 was tabled at the request of Conservative MP Ziad Aboultaif (Edmonton Manning) who asked, “With regard to enactment of the Emergencies Act in 2022, what was the cost burden for the government?”