Trudeau plans to invoke Emergencies Act in response to protests: sources

[brooklynite]

Source: CBC

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has told his caucus he will invoke the never-before-used Emergencies Act to give the federal government extra powers to handle anti-vaccine mandate protests across the country, sources say.

Those sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly, said the prime minister informed the premiers of his decision this morning.

The Emergencies Act, which replaced the War Measures Act in the 1980s, defines a national emergency as a temporary "urgent and critical situation" that "seriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians and is of such proportions or nature as to exceed the capacity or authority of a province to deal with it."

It gives special powers to the prime minister to respond to emergency scenarios affecting public welfare (natural disasters, disease outbreaks), public order (civil unrest), international emergencies or war emergencies.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-premiers-cabinet-1.6350734

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. The right wing bullies will love it if he invokes the act. But it has gotten to that point, perhaps

They will fundraise and recruit off it for years, but they would find something else anyway.