The Liberal government unreasonably invoked the Emergencies Act to clear the convoy protests that gridlocked the capital city and border points nearly four years ago, the Federal Court of Appeal ruled on Friday.
The court dismissed the government’s appeal of a 2024 ruling which deemed former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to use the legislation unlawful and infringed on protesters’ Charter rights.
“As disturbing and disruptive the blockades and the convoy protests in Ottawa could be, they fell well short of a threat to national security,” wrote the three judges on the appeal court.
They were not legal protests when they specifically wanted to illegally overthrow the government.
A lot of people forget that they had online documents calling for that.
And frankly, they were harassing the citizens of Ottawa, not protesting.
This was also 90% the provinces fault, with ford out jerking off in his cottage instead of doing shit all because he didn’t like the feds and wanted too make them have to suffer.
This is how good people get screwed, but stupid judges that can’t see 2+2 is 4. In the eyes of the court now a ‘National Security’ threat has to be so great that an invading army needs to be parked on Parliament Hill.
Most normal people don’t want a hundred trucks honking all night long for weeks on end, it’s insanity.
Most normal people dont see honking trucks as threat to national security. The Emergencies Act was formerly called the War Measures Act was written for time of war by an invading army and honking trucks are not an act of war. Obviously.
There was one guy who wrote the document - James Bauder. He was asked NOT to come into the city by the main organizers, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, because they didnt agree with him. And having watched the guy give his testimony and having read his document it was pretty obvious that Mr Bauder is a not all there. He’s sincere but NO ONE who has an ounce of experience took that document seriously. It was legalspeak gobbledy gook.
The protesters were not there to overthrow the government, they were there to protest the overreach of the government in enforcing mandates that no longer made sense. The media tried to pretend that the convoy was Ottawa’s “January 6th” just like the US - the difference is this was a non violent protest. They had dozens of semi trucks, if they had wanted to ram their way into Parliament, they could have. If they had wanted to vandalize and destroy the city, they could have. They didnt, because that wasn’t their purpose. The media and the gov tried to vilify them and as we are FINALLY seeing, they gov was WRONG all along.
IF this was actually sedition there would’ve been charges of sedition. There never were. The strongest charges brought against the organizers were Mischief - and both Barber and Lich are working and are carrying on their normal lives with their 18 month “house arrest” sentences. They got a slap on the wrist and they didnt even deserve that. The law is not the fool that Trudeau and the media turned out to be.