Amelie Chateauneuf demonstrated peacefully during the G20 in Toronto last summer. “The next morning, I was woken up with a Taser gun in my face,” she testified.

John Pruyn was handcuffed and had his prosthetic leg ripped off by a police officer for not moving off the grass at Queen’s Park quickly enough. The officer told him to put it back on. “I couldn’t believe what he was saying. Of course I can’t put my leg back on with my hands tied behind my back . . . so then he says ‘hop,’ ” Pruyn testified.

These statements and dozens of others were not made before a public inquiry into the security excesses of the G20 summit as they should have been, but before a three-day citizens’ inquiry held by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the National Union of Public and General Employees.

That’s because Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Premier Dalton McGuinty have refused to hold the independent inquiry that could get beyond the stories, subpoena officials — both police and their political bosses — and find out how things got so out of hand.

Queen’s Park and Ottawa are hoping to ignore the calls for a public inquiry until they go away. The citizens’ report shows, yet again, why that should not be allowed to happen.