Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be under a great deal of pressure when he testifies next week at the public inquiry examining his government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act. The decision was almost certainly illegal and unconstitutional, and nothing that has been presented at the Public Order Emergency Commission so far suggests otherwise.
In order to justify the use of emergency legislation that permits the government to effectively create laws at will and more easily limit charter rights, it must be shown that there was a genuine “threat to the security of Canada.” Such a threat, which is defined in the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act, must consist of “activities within or relating to Canada directed toward or in support of the threat or use of acts of serious violence.”
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There has been no evidence made public so far that such a threat existed. On the contrary, law enforcement and intelligence officials have repeatedly said, either at the commission or to the government at the time, that the convoy protests did not meet the standards required by the Emergencies Act.
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