Justin Trudeau was warranted in using Emergencies Act to shut down 'Freedom Convoy'

[kpete]

OTTAWA—Police dysfunction, stubborn politics and a failure of federalism turned last winter’s “Freedom Convoy” protests into a national crisis that warranted the first-ever use of the Emergencies Act, Ontario Justice Paul Rouleau concluded in a much-anticipated report.

Rouleau determined — “with reluctance” — that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government met the “very high threshold” to trigger the act and create a host of extraordinary police powers to quash the protests. But Rouleau also called the protests “legitimate,” and blamed government leaders and police for failing to “properly manage” the demonstrations against COVID-19 health measures, which he described as a predictable response to a disruptive pandemic.


https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2023/02/17/report-on-justin-trudeau-governments-decision-to-invoke-emergencies-act-in-freedom-convoy-protests-slated-for-release-today.html

[Seeking Serenity]

1. He should have sent in the RCMP to arrest every one of those

Anti-government insurrectionists and seized their bank accounts. That'd make them think twice before challenging sensible government policy.

[applegrove]

2. Conservative Premier Doug Ford refused to help out even though

policing is a provincial thing. He also refused to go to the inquirery and testify. Such a political stunt.

[Takket]

3. the only way to manage the crisis, short of dispersing it, would be giving in to it

being that the only thing that would have satiated the protestors would be to essentially sentence hundreds of thousands to Canadians to death by banning the vaccine, i think Treadeu and his government did the best they could, given the irrational ignorant idiots they were dealing with