Inquiry unveils texts about blockade between Coutts mayor and Alberta transportation minister

Part of the series of documents submitted to the Public Order Emergency Commission show a text chain between Coutts Mayor Jim Willett and former Alberta transportation minister Rajan Sawhney during the Coutts border crossing blockade last winter. It shows Willett asking the province to help intervene with the blockade. On Feb. 12, Willet sent the minister a text that read, “If you get a chance could you find out why the premier is ignoring the province being held hostage by domestic terror