Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes the case for using Emergencies Act
We didn’t spend the last six weeks seeking answers about whether the invocation of the Emergencies Act was politically popular. A commission of inquiry was not probing whether it was effective in clearing Ottawa streets and preventing further border blockades.
Thirty days of testimony from politicians, police and protesters was meant to determine whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had the legal justification to use such a sledgehammer, suspending civil liberties, to break an occupation in the nation’s capital and ensure there would be no further attempts to block crucial commerce routes. Was there a threat to national security? Had all other enforcement avenues been exhausted?
