Rex Murphy: Well, this is fun.
The government of Canada invoked the Emergencies Act, the greatest of all overrides of Canadian civil liberties, over a misunderstanding. A miscommunication. A lapsus linguae, or as Maxwell Smart would put it, the old slip-of-the-tongue trick.
Nothing deliberate mind you. Just a bit of sloppy phrasing. Could happen to anybody. Even to a minister of public safety of the government of Canada.
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