September 10, 2024
The only thing that can be said in defence of Trudeau’s invoking of the Emergencies Act is that it was his incompetence that made such an extreme measure necessary.
The controversial blockade of the Ambassador Bridge was already resolved. The grounds for invoking this act are, according to Joanna Baron of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, “extremely thin”. The protests may be a nuisance and many people may disagree with them, but that doesn’t justify this decision.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s unjustified invoking of the Emergencies Act is deeply problematic and will have long-lasting consequences for the country.

Ever since the freedom convoy first touched base in Ottawa a couple of weeks ago, the PM has gone out of his way to increase the tensions.

The Liberal government appeared to be hoping for some sort of Jan. 6 style event as happened in the United States last year. All of their rhetoric indicated they were keen to see such an event go down.

It never did. The convoy has been peaceful throughout.

The only real violence so far has been a vehicular ramming conducted against protesters, which sent four people to hospital. You don’t hear much about that though. Trudeau never condemned it.

Instead, Trudeau has called protesters every name in the book even though they are a diverse crowd in every sense of the word.

Now he is giving himself extraordinary powers to deal with these protests. One of the most disturbing parts is how they can now dictate that banks freeze people’s accounts without a court order.

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See Also:

(1) Canada Emergencies Act

(2) Invoking Emergencies Act, Justin Trudeau follows father’s lead

(3) Trudeau invokes Emergencies Act but won’t use military to quell protests, blockades

(4) Multiple provinces oppose Trudeau’s plan to invoke Emergencies Act

(5) Justin Trudeau — he just wasn’t ready

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BTDT
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BTDT
February 16, 2022 3:36 pm

Do not doubt. If America is allowed to be the main course. Canada will be the dessert.

Obama called Joe, Joe called Justin (on a burner phone?) and the rest is history.

This is the most monumentally stupid, monumentally arrogant, and monumentally misguided decision by a prime minister since 1867.

Rex Murphy: Trudeau’s monumentally misguided emergency measures are an insult to Canadians (msn.com)

BTDT
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BTDT
February 16, 2022 8:32 am

Justin Trudeau is just a weak little man who is way out of his depth.
Liberals are supposed to be all about democracy, but here we have thousands of people exercising their democratic right to protest and what is his response?

To behave like a dictator.

Why? Because, again, he’s actually just a weak little man whose mask
has slipped.

He isn’t woke. He isn’t liberal. He isn’t fair and just.

Patrick Christys: Justin Trudeau is just a weak little man who is way out of his depth (gbnews.uk)

BTDT
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BTDT
February 16, 2022 8:47 am
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A hammer to kill a flea, or in Trudeau’s own words “a small fringe group”.

Druthers bank account frozen! Money for truckers can’t be withdrawn. – YouTube