Over the past few weeks, Canada has been watching closely as the government is being held accountable for the invocation of the Emergencies Act last February, which violently broke up the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa.

The Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC) is an inquiry into why the Emergencies Act was invoked, if it was even lawful, and who asked for those extreme powers in the first place.

Sadly, this isn't a legal proceeding, and no matter what evidence is shown, this entire commission is almost good for nothing.

But at least protesters and convoy organizers get to speak freely on the record after some of them have been banned to use social media.

Tamara Lich is easily the most famous of the truckers.

She took the stand last week, and her testimony was heartbreaking.

We are now in week three of the POEC; it will go on until November 25, and Commissioner Paul Rouleau (who is a liberal party donor, I kid you not) will make his report public on February 2023.

So far, these proceedings have been hard to watch. We have heard from police, politician, Ottawa residents, truckers, protesters, and convoy organizers, and their testimonies have been extremely telling.

One can not even compare the testimonies of one side to the other.

One side talks about horn honking and microaggressions, while the other side talks about being dehumanized, ridiculed, and stripped of their core freedoms.

Brigitte Belton, one of the first people involved in the Freedom Convoy, took the stand and explained why she joined the convoy.

What we know thus far is that the media was a big part of the problem.

What we still don't know is who actually asked for the Emergencies Act in the first place.

Maybe we'll find out when PM Justin Trudeau takes the stand.