Canada: The Vote on the Emergencies Act Is in and It Isn't Good
By Nick Arama | Feb 22, 2022 8:00 AM ET
We’ve been covering the struggle for individual rights being waged by the Freedom Convoy in Canada because, when you get right down to it, it’s a basic fight for us all, against that ever-broadening grab for power and restriction of basic liberties that is afoot not only there, but here and around the world as well.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau grabbed extraordinary powers on February 14 by invoking the Emergencies Act, claiming it was necessary to do so because of the blockades and the occupation of Ottawa by protesters. The Act — which came into being in 1988 — had never been invoked before. There was a good reason why that’s the case — because to invoke it would require an emergency the nature of which doesn’t exist and the invocation a suspension of civil liberties. But that didn’t stop Trudeau who declared the unmitigated right not only to stomp all over people’s rights, but to freeze their bank accounts if he so chose, or even conscript people to work for the government. He admitted he had forced tow truck drivers to work against their will to clear out the protest.
As we reported yesterday, the invocation of those powers was so concerning, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association came out against it, calling for Parliament to reject it. They noted that the alleged excuse for the Act no longer even existed — the blockades (without the need for the Act), even the occupation in Ottawa were over.
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