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Mon Feb 14, 2022, 08:56 PM Feb 2022

Trudeau Declared A State Of Emergency Over Canada's Trucker Protests

The prime minister invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time in Canada’s history in an attempt to clear weeks-long blockades.


OTTAWA — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time in the country’s history Monday, unleashing new powers to clear sprawling and disruptive anti–vaccine mandate protests and freeze their funding.

The act grants the government broad but temporary measures to deal with a crisis. These new powers range from freezing the bank accounts of protest organizers to increasing fines and prison sentences for those who defy orders to disperse. The anti-mandate trucker protest occupying downtown Ottawa is in its third week. Other protests have blockaded border crossings in Ontario and Alberta.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmcleod/justin-trudeau-trucker-protest-emergency
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Trudeau Declared A State Of Emergency Over Canada's Trucker Protests (Original Post) 634-5789 Feb 2022 OP
THIS !!!! ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾 Please bring this reaction to J6rs here !! J6rs are NOT popular here either but uponit7771 Feb 2022 #1
Excellent.. It seems to Cha Feb 2022 #2
Trudeau is the man! Way to stand up to the "patriots"! WillUSAF Feb 2022 #3

uponit7771

(90,336 posts)
1. THIS !!!! ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾 Please bring this reaction to J6rs here !! J6rs are NOT popular here either but
Mon Feb 14, 2022, 08:57 PM
Feb 2022

... too many of them keep getting away with shit

 

WillUSAF

(91 posts)
3. Trudeau is the man! Way to stand up to the "patriots"!
Mon Feb 14, 2022, 09:28 PM
Feb 2022

It's refreshing to see a leader stand up to this people!!

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