Did Justin Trudeau need the controversial Emergencies Act to stop the ‘Freedom Convoy’? A judge will hear the arguments for and against this week
OTTAWA — The shock waves — political, legal and historical — from the self-styled “Freedom Convoy” have crashed through Canadian society for more than eight months.
And they’re about to surge again.
On Thursday, long-anticipated — and delayed — public hearings are set to begin for the independent judicial inquiry tasked with probing what happened during those weeks last winter, when anti-government protests occupied the streets around Parliament Hill, blockaded key border crossings, and peppered Canadian politics with frustration, conspiracy theories and COVID-19 misinformation.
