Trudeau, Pere et Fil

So the weasel has decided to follow in his father's footsteps and invoke the Emergencies Act, this requires a bit of history.

The Emergencies Act (EA) was enacted in 1988 to replace the War Measures Act (WMA). There are significant differences between the two which might have escaped the notice of the weasel, one, to actually impose the EA the approval of Parliament is required and two, the Charter if Rights and Freedoms and the Bill of Rights are not abrogated.

In October of 1970 the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ)  kidnapped a Quebec politician and a British trade commissioner.In response the Quebec government declared an emergency and the federal government invoked the WMA suspending civil liberties in Quebec. The Army was called in primarily to guard federal buildings and installations. Two people died, the kidnapped Quebec politician, and a soldier who inadvertently discharged his weapon whilst disembarking from a truck.

Pierre Trudeau was the Prime Minister of Canada at the time and, although there was much debate at the time and since of the appropriateness of the response, acted definitively in response to the apprehended insurrection.

So now the weasel fil has pretended that there is a national emergency requiring federal action, it would appear that he is using the public order section of the EA.

The emergency must be a "national emergency" which means an "urgent and critical situation of a temporary nature" that either "(a) 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, or (b) seriously threatens the ability of the Government of Canada to preserve the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Canada and that cannot be effectively dealt with under any other law of Canada"

Further, When defining "threats to the security of Canada" the act references the definition provided in the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act, which includes espionage, sabotage, detrimental foreign influences, activities which support the threat or use of violence for a political, religious or ideological objective; or those activities which threaten to undermine or otherwise destroy, or overthrow the Government of Canada. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act specifically notes that "lawful advocacy, protest or dissent" do not constitute "threats to the security of Canada". Lastly the EA specifically prohibits the federal government from taking over the jurisdiction of the local police.

I would submit that the current situation in Ottawa does not meet the requirements of the Act. Clearly the  there are other laws that can deal with the situation and there is no evidence that the provincial authority cannot deal with the problem. I note that the provincial authority has already cleared the Ambassador Bridge.

The weasel's authoritarian and elitist proclivities are on full display for all to see, with any luck people will remember when election time rolls round