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.

  • LoveCanada@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    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.