Canadian Federal Judge Rules that Canada’s Use of Emergency Act is “Unjustified”
Jose Nino
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On January 23, 2024 a federal judge issued a ruling that determined that the Canadian government’s use of emergency powers to crack down on the anti-government Freedom Convoy protests in early 2022 was “unreasonable” and unjustified.
In that decision, Judge Richard Mosley issued on January 23 that it also violated Canada’s rights charter. The Emergencies Act grants the government more powers in times of crisis.
Trudeau invoked the Act on February 14, 2022, three weeks into protests that paralyzed the Great White North.
The protests were branded as the “Freedom Convoy.” They were organized against the Trudeau regime’s Wuhan virus vaccine mandate. These protests gained international coverage as hundreds of protesters surrounded Ottawa’s Parliament Hill.
Shorter protests and blockades emerged at several border points across Canada.
The emergency powers granted the government to impose prohibitions on public assembly in several areas and to ban travel to protest zones, which included travel by foreign nationals.
In the February 14 decision, Judge Mosely wrote the following: “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.”
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Canadian Constitution Foundation initially brought the case forward.
They contended that the protests did not meet the “high legal threshold” required to invoke the act, which was activated for the first time since it had the power of law in 1988.
On February 14, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland defended the Trudeau regime’s measures, contending that the country at the time confronted an imminent threat to its economic and national security and it was a “option of the last resort”.
“We acted to secure and protect Canada and to secure and protect the national interests,” she said to reporters in Montreal.
“It was not an easy time, these were not easy decisions.”
Canada is the posterboy of globalism. Nevertheless, there are still some vestiges of the rule of law left in that country. Whatever red-blooded Canadians are left in the country should do everything possible to use that Anglo-Saxon tradition of freedom coursing in their veins to push back against the globalists occupying Ottawa.
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