Two years ago, I wrote a column denouncing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s use of a counter-terrorism law to shut down the Freedom Convoy trucker protests as an authoritarian attack on free speech. Now, a Canadian court has agreed and ruled that the use of the Emergencies Act was unlawful and “unreasonable.” Despite Trudeau’s attacks on civil liberties, he remains a favorite of the media as an iconic figure on the left.
Various civil liberties groups have opposed the iron-handed measures of Trudeau, including The Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Canadian Constitution Foundation. The characterization of political critics as terrorists has long been a signature of authoritarian governments. The Canadian Parliament actually extended those powers, dismissing civil liberties concerns. Fortunately, despite the actions of Trudeau and the Parliament, there is an independent court system in Canada.
The use of the Emergencies Act allowed the government to arrest the leaders of the Freedom Convoy, freeze bank accounts of protesters, and seize donations of other citizens. Trudeau simply declared that the protesters were “threats to the security of Canada that are so serious as to be a national emergency.”
In his ruling, Justice Richard Mosley wrote:
I have concluded that the decision to issue the Proclamation does not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness – justification, transparency and intelligibility – and was not justified in relation to the relevant factual and legal constraints that were required to be taken into consideration.
Trudeau merely cited the potential for violence without any compelling support for an imminent risk of violence. The court declared:
The potential for serious violence, or being unable to say that there was no potential for serious violence was, of course, a valid reason for concern. But in my view, it did not satisfy the test required to invoke the Act particularly as there was no evidence of a similar “hardened cell” elsewhere in the country, only speculation.
In many ways, the court stated the obvious, but this was an obvious point that other courts and a majority in Parliament ignored:
I agree with the Applicants that the scope of the Regulations was overbroad in so far as it captured people who simply wanted to join in the protest by standing on Parliament Hill carrying a placard. It is not suggested that they would have been the focus of enforcement efforts by the police. However, under the terms of the Regulations, they could have been subject to enforcement actions as much as someone who had parked their truck on Wellington Street and otherwise behaved in a manner that could reasonably be expected to lead to a breach of the peace. [309] One aspect of free expression is the right to express oneself in certain public spaces. By tradition, such places become places of protected expression…To the extent that peaceful protestors did not participate in the actions of those disrupting the peace, their freedom of expression was infringed.
Bravo.
Here is the opinion: Canadian Trucker Decision
Every day, for the past 8 years we hear more corruption exposed “every day” and the only punishment was the staged hanging Jeffrey Epstein. I wonder if this post will see, The Light of Day?
Man can’t fix our problem!
The court spoke with weak words which to me sounds like the rights infringed upon were not of any monumental worth. Sounds like Trudeau issued some parking tickets that would be thrown out later in some ignominious court. Canadians just got the handwriting on the wall informing them whether or not the troops would arrive soon to help carry that old man freedom around. Guess not.
When, as, and if Donald J. Trump becomes the next POTUS…..the Trump Administration will have 4 years, at most, to ‘shut down’ the Left — not only in our country, but to make it clear to Canada and Mexico that their Left makes it impossible to do business with them as we have traditionally done —
Canada’s only hope for freedom is TRUMP 2024. It will expose Trudeau’ attempt to destroy our nation. Our MSM has been bought and paid for by our taxes to censor truth. Just try and find Tucker’s speech in Alberta in which he sheds light on Canada’s slide toward destruction thanks to Liberals and Globalization..
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Canada’s next prime minister, Pierre Polieve, will bring true conservatism to Canada and beyond. No need for the joke of theatric conservatism that Trump plays.
Reporting by the left leaning “The Rising” on a recently released via FOIA set of documents – a grant proposal in 2018 to deveop a virus that is about as close as you can get to SARS COV-2 in a grant proposal.
While the grant was not funded, the grant asserts that the development of the Virus would be cheap.
The highlights:
This was in 2018 a bit more than a year before C19 escaped.
The proposal was to modify a Bat corrona Virus to add a furin clevage site and to enhance binding to the Human ACE2 receptor.
Further the work was to be done with a gene splicing compound that is virtually non-existant in nature.
Some of the work was to be done in North Carolina, the rest at the WIV in china.
The Odds of scientist proposing something this near exactly like Covid, and nature then magically producing exactly the same thing a year+ later are near zero.
This dramatically increases the already high odds that Covid came from a Lab in China. And that US Scientists were involved in its development.
https://youtu.be/YZ_q6soeWzg
Trudeau Government Used Faked Intelligence To Illegally Frame Protesting Truckers As Violent Extremists
https://public.substack.com/p/trudeau-government-used-faked-intelligence
I don’t know about Canadian law, but under USA law, faking evidence is a felony.
I don’t know about Canadian law, but under USA law, faking evidence is a felony.
Kind of like the Clinton/Obama/Biden/Comey/DNC’s “Russia Dossier”?
I imagine Canada’s Prime Minister Racist Black Face, Sock Boy, doesn’t have to worry about being indicted for that any more than the The Magical Marxist Mulatto Clown, The Big Guy, and the rest of the Soviet Democrats and their Lavarentiy Beria’s in the DoJ do.
100%- How can people think that these people will ever be held accountable, by , we the people. I first saw it 8 years ago, when Trump was elected, and I thought to myself, these people are trying to overthrow our government, not realizing that they already had. Fear not, our General will slay them with The Sword of HIS mouth, very soon! Great post OAD!
Nothing compared to the tyranny that the Aussies and New Zealanders’ were subjected to. Hard to believe they allowed that to happen.