Justice Paul Rouleau explains the role of the Public Inquiry for the invocation of Emergencies Act

Rouleau outlines the requirements of the inquiry provided to him by the Federal Government, but whether or not the threshold was met to be invoked in first place is interestingly not one of them. Even though that is one of the items that Inquiry should be determining according to Perrin Beatty's testimony in Parliamentary Committee on the Special Joint Committee on the Declaration of Emergency.

Source: Day 1 of Public Hearings, October 13, 2022 Public Inquiry for the Invocation of the Emergencies Act