War Trudeau plans to invoke Emergencies Act in response to protests: sources - These powers have "never-before" been used.

Act grants cabinet ability to take 'special temporary measures that may not be appropriate in normal times'​

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has told his caucus he plans on invoking the never-before-used Emergencies Act to give the federal government extra powers to handle the protests across the country, according to sources.

Those sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly, said the prime minister will inform 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 powers to the prime minister to respond to four different types of emergency scenarios: public welfare (natural disasters, disease), public order (civil unrest), international emergencies and war emergencies.

The act grants cabinet the ability to "take special temporary measures that may not be appropriate in normal times" to cope with an emergency and the resulting fallout during an "urgent and critical situation."

It gives the government extraordinary — but time limited — powers. The act is still contingent on Parliament's approval and subject to the protections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Jack Lindsay, an associate professor in the applied disaster and emergency studies department at Brandon University in Manitoba, said one of the first steps is for the government to show that the state of affairs constitutes an emergency.

"They're gonna have to basically prove that first hurdle, that it is a national emergency," he said.

"He's basically going to be arguing that these truckers are basically creating a threat to the security of Canada."

Under the act, the government is prohibited from taking control of police forces, said Lindsay

"They do have the grounds to regulate and prohibit public assembly and travel and then regulate or prohibit the use of specific properties," he said.

"I suppose they could put out regulations about where semi-trailers are allowed to park overnight, for example. They can designate protected places like the Ambassador's Bridge or something."

The government can also order or direct any person to render services with compensation, said Lindsay, which could in theory be used to tow trucks blocking streets downtown.

In a meeting with the Liberal caucus on Monday morning, Trudeau said there were no plans to deploy the military, according to the sources.

Invoking the act also triggers an inquest at the end of the declaration.

The move follows a meeting Sunday of the federal cabinet and its Incident Response Group (IRG). Trudeau tweeted late Sunday that the IRG discussed "further actions the government can take to help end the blockades and occupations."

Earlier that day, Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair described the attitude around invoking the Emergencies Act as "appropriate caution" rather than "reticence."

Blair emphasized on CBC's Rosemary Barton Live it was important to make sure that "the appropriate authorities that are with the provinces are fully utilized," and he said the federal government was "prepared to do everything necessary."

The War Measures Act was most famously used in peace times by Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau during the October Crisis.

Corrections​

• This story has been updated from a previous version that said the prime minister is chairing a cabinet meeting. In fact, it is a caucus meeting.
  Feb 14, 2022 8:38 AM ET

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[wry wrangler]

@Unpaid Emotional Labourer I'm unable to directly quote your message at the time because of seething trannies, so I'll just reply. Justin Trudeau is digging in his heels essentially because of his personality. He is the son of a very wealthy and powerful man, and a very influential figure in recent Canadian history (for better or for worse), and he's accustomed to getting everything his way. This is because he had everything handed to him in life from birth because of his wealthy and powerful father. Even the Liberal Party leadership was given to him because he is his father's son. People who have been given everything in life, who have never had to work for anything, become very entitled and spoiled. When they don't get their way, when others don't do what they want, they tend to get very angry very quickly. This has been Trudeau's bane ever since he took office as the Prime Minister; the SNC-Lavalin scandal, where he pressured a cabinet official to drop an investigation into a well-connected company, blew up in his face because the official he pressured simply refused to be so pressured. He's gone completely psychotic and declared martial law over a bunch of truckers making him look bad because that's how he acts when he doesn't get his way.

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

Maybe if the truckers had taken a page from the Summer of Love and actually burned Ottawa to the ground this wouldn't have happened.

Oh wait, they didn't have a dead non-white criminal to do it in honor of.

 

[Awilix]

So, is this the point where Trudeau reveals his idol is Sheev Palpatine and he's taking a play right out of his book?

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

When your reaction to simple protest is to accelerate, they are not the ones pushing extremist action Trudeau and people like yourself are.

Also: Non-violent protest= fascist villains? Then you think people should sit down and talk calmly with people that literally think that? Fuck off. What you really are saying by reading between the lines is people should compromise on YOUR sides terms. That trick doesn't work so well anymore.

Okay dumbass you even had the opportunity to see my later posts pointing out I wasn’t being serious with how I described the protestors so you are just a faggot with a chip on your shoulder. In the words of some guy “lol calm down”

Also fuck me he is such a vindictive slut. They hurt his fee fees so he doubles down on punishing for everyone.

 

[DoomsdayElite]

Canada, now effectively a dictatorship. I must say, I expected America to reach that point long, long before they did.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

With half the premieres out there seemingly dissenting with this decision, and the global reaction being overwhelmingly "What the Fuck Canada", I wouldn't be surprised if this fails after the 7 day limit now. At first I thought he had it in the bag but Trudeau might even manage to fuck up being a dictator, just to round off this clownshow.

 

[Ruin]

Canada, now effectively a dictatorship. I must say, I expected America to reach that point long, long before they did.

I didn't. Practically every leaf I've ever met had that faggy vaguely European snobby authoritarian air about them so I knew this would happen eventually.

 

[Some JERK]

So I'm not up to speed on the details of this, but has the Canadian government sent, or even offered to host, a delegation to discuss the issue with these people? Jumping straight to emergency powers seems incredibly weak.

 

[Jack Awful]

Again the progressives can't think more then a minute ahead.

Ok so next time our Cons are in power and the natives and their white leaders get uppity about a raidroad or pipeline and start yet another blockade we can just say it's a national emergency and send in the goose steppers while telling everyone that the Liberals did it first so it must ok be.

It's like progressives have fallen into their own PR trap. They'll never get voted out, the other side will never use the tricks they set up and surely the evil Cons would never think to use all these nice tools the Liberals left lying around.

Remember Machiavelli's last advice;

Rule today as if your worse enemy will rule tomorrow.

The left had this coming. Months of rioting, looting, arson, murder, occupying cities, and even blockades were applauded as "peaceful protests for black lives" in 2020.

 

[anti SJW]

Seems like this belongs here.

 

[Meat Target]

So I'm not up to speed on the details of this, but has the Canadian government sent, or even offered to host, a delegation to discuss the issue with these people? Jumping straight to emergency powers seems incredibly weak.

Nope. They cannot admit- cannot comprehend- that their ideological opponents might be real human beings with legitimate lives, thoughts, opinions, and grievances. That would be "bothsidesism".

If you oppose your technocrat betters, you're just a racist sexist fascist poopyhead meanie!

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

So I'm not up to speed on the details of this, but has the Canadian government sent, or even offered to host, a delegation to discuss the issue with these people? Jumping straight to emergency powers seems incredibly weak.

Nope. There was some joke document going around about inviting truckers to speak, but only if they were vaccinated. For the most part, Trudeau's position has been that he's right and therefore they're not allowed to do this.

 

[Airbrushed Van Art]

LOL that ain't gonna do shit.

Canada, as usual, is the laughing stock of the planet. Sure we send some great musicians and actors to the USA, but otherwise MEEEEEHHHHHH

 

[Kickster]

You are an absolutely dense dirt eating grade A retard if that's your definitive take from two years of totalitarianism, controlled destruction of the global economy, and decimation of civil rights out of pure greed and contempt for the working class.

Bruh if this is the best coping mechanism you found to deal with being a retard you should see a therapist

 

[ColtWalker1847]

I'm starting to think violence is the only effective solution. If you try to protest tyranny, then the state tyrannizes you by making protest illegal, what else is left to do?

Honk and call them faggots. They don't have the will to bust heads over this. They don't have the resources to tow the trucks away. They don't have the manpower to keep other Canadian patriots from just moving right back in and doing the same thing.

The politicians believe their own BS that it is a "small fringe minority" and that they can just ticket and tow the problem away. They can't. It is too big of a movement. Way too big.

So I'm not up to speed on the details of this, but has the Canadian government sent, or even offered to host, a delegation to discuss the issue with these people? Jumping straight to emergency powers seems incredibly weak.

No. There have been some little small things like moving a truck down a street in Ottawa but that is done by individual police officers with the truckers. Apparently there were negotiations in Alberta with their Premier. But in Ottawa the reaction at all levels has been "ree, unclean peasants". The emergency powers has been something the Ottawa city council crazy ladies have been screaming for since the beginning.

 

[Spud]

shouldn't the truckers not all be dead by Covid now?

The majority of the truckers are vaccinated they just wanted the mandates to end

 

[mold]

I'm starting to think violence is the only effective solution. If you try to protest tyranny, then the state tyrannizes you by making protest illegal, what else is left to do?

there has never, ever, EVER been a more retarded idea than the idea of using violence as a protest against covid mandates

covid mandates require near universal social compliance

nonviolent noncompliance will destroy them

 

[Just_Somebody]

You're comparing apples and oranges. Those native groups consist of a handful of idiots in the middle of nowhere ranting about a pipleline. They aren't disrupting an entire city and harassing people who live in the area. If these idiots didn't want to get hauled off by the cops and provoke the government into taking these kinds of measures to remove them they should have kept things peaceful and non disruptive. Instead they had a bunch of people acting like idiots, honking constantly, harassing people and the street and doing stupid shit. Keep your people in line during protests or don't be surprised when they end up fucking everything up and getting you blamed for it

"People are honking in front of Parliament! Better declare the Emergencies Act and open a door to a military intervention!"

People "acting like idiots" and honking isn't justification for a declaration of the Emergencies Act. An injunction on the honking was made, and the honking stopped. When the police moved on the Ambassador Bridge, most people moved their cars willingly, and even though it was delayed a day when hundreds of Windsorites rallied and held Huron Church an extra day (making the government news agencies seethe). However, outside of a few arrests, things were cleared.

Public order in Canada has not fucking collapsed to the point where we need the Emergencies Act. Police can still do their goddamn jobs. Trade being delayed is not a danger to Canadian sovereignty. Trudeau is calling the Emergencies Act to force tow truck drivers under threat of arrest to move fucking trucks.

 

[ColtWalker1847]

Trudeau is calling the Emergencies Act to force tow truck drivers under threat of arrest to move fucking trucks.

The tow truck drivers who want to remain neutral in all this, I might add. It's also a $500 fine if they tell the government to fuck off. Which many will happily pay.

The big thing with the Emergencies Act is the money. The rest is the same "strong measures" blustering we have seen from the beginning.

 

[Vault Boy]

The very concept of "emergency" powers needs to be abolished. Whatever good they may have done in the past pales in comparison to how much damage they have done to society and the global economy in the past two years. They've proven to be easily abused with how many extensions were made, and this instance doesn't even have the flimsy excuse of an "unprecedented pandemic", just a leader too power hungry and too cowardly to speak to the protesters.