It’s Friday as I write. The police in Ottawa are already fully engaged in exercising their powers under the Emergencies Act. Arrests. Checkpoints. Blocked-off areas.
Parliament was supposed to meet to debate the imposition of the act. That got cancelled.
Justin Trudeau, after invoking the most powerful and sweeping legislation affecting the civil liberties of all Canadian citizens since … well, since the War Measures Act invoked by his father, will not be in Parliament today to engage in debate on it.
Not even in the pale, restricted, sporadic pretence of a Parliament we have been getting the past two years by Zoom.
The imposition of the Emergencies Act has been challenged by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. It has had no review by our courts. It all rests on pure assertion by the prime minister, his compliant ministers, and of course his (effective) aide-de-camp, enabler and prime supporter, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. Do any Canadians remember when we had an NDP party — the “conscience of Parliament” it used to be known as?
Judgment first. Then let’s have the trial. Oh sunny days.
Jonathan Turley, a renowned American law professor, puts the point clearly. “The House of Commons just postponed debating Trudeau’s emergency powers because he is using his emergency powers near the Parliament to clear protesters. It is like postponing a war powers vote because there is a war going on.”
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