Terry Glavin: Emergencies Act reveals embarrassing truth that Liberals just can't govern

It came at the end of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s meticulously scripted press conference on Monday, flanked by his senior cabinet ministers, when he announced that he was invoking the Emergencies Act — the successor to the War Measures Act — for the first time since its proclamation in 1988.

You may even end up relieved to discover that the Emergencies Act will permit the federal government to commandeer tow trucks in order to put an end to the misery that Ottawa residents in the vicinity of the Parliamentary precincts have had to endure all these days.

So don’t be hard on yourself if you’re wondering what defensible rationale might be mounted to explain the necessity of invoking the Emergencies Act, because it certainly wasn’t the truckers’ scofflaw belligerence at the Ambassador Bridge border crossing. That yahoo barricade was already removed before the Emergencies Act was dusted off, and not by any strenuous exertions on Trudeau’s part.

It’s no trivial observation CCLA executive director Noa Mendelsohn Aviv makes when he says that whatever threats are posed by the protest leaders, it’s the Trudeau government’s brandishing of the emergency powers cudgel that “threatens our democracy and our civil liberties.” Not the Trailer Park Boys over on Wellington Street.

Well no, it did not. Unlike its War Measures Act predecessor, the Emergencies Act doesn’t even suspend civil rights in Canada. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms remains embedded in Canadian constitutional law. The flags are still flying on all government buildings, unlike the months on end when they weren’t last year owing to a whim that overcame Trudeau in his zeal to demonstrate just how deeply he cares about the Indigenous people of this country.

Bullshit. 3 election wins. Who could Govern? Got many people through Covid and a lot of those yahoo's 'protesting' claimed fed $ to stay afloat.

They should just go in and pretend the protesters are indigenous…it would be over already

Ya think?

If the OttawaPolice did their jobs at the leadership level, none of this would have happened. Leadership failure OttawaPolice is significant

Again with the NP drivel. Ford and Kenney both failed at cleaning up their occupier messes. Ford perhaps biggest of all for his disappearing act and letting Ottawa fester til it became this bad.

Terry spreading it thicker than usual today. Real headline is Feds have to act due to Ford Government inaction

The only thing that’s embarrassing is what the Conservative party had a become.

That's because they are the furthest away from being liberal as they can be.

Let’s see, municipal and provincial governments were given adequate time to resolve the issue outside of federal jurisdiction. The premier asked for help and in order to legally supersede jurisdiction, the federal government correctly applied the necessary law… problem?

The liberals will do anything to keep the Big Lie alive and to keep all of us docile and obedient even if they have to make an example out of all these people who yearn for freedom.

Not a single word in the last 3 weeks about the deplorable incompetence and traitorous disloyalty, not to mention absolute chaos going on in the CPC. Postmedia is working overtime to deflect everything onto the liberals and failing to recognize the conservatives.

When will folks realize that the occupation in Ottawa is a Policing matter. It was a failure of the Ottawa Police and in some respects the Ontario Government that failed to properly deal with the illegal activity. Now the Federal Government has to step in.

😂😂😂 the conservative obsession with hating Trudeau is psychotic

We knew this in 2015

Who’s Terry Glavin? Is his/her opinion relevant?

Oh yes, that’s what it does. Even though the Liberals have been governing since 2016.

This paper is trash. The fact of the matter is most Canadians are disgusted with The conservatives for dragging the religious right and white supremacy into the main stream.

Siri: give me a glaring example of confirmation bias

Very well said my friend

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