Freedom Convoy protests [Split from All things 2019-nCoV]

[Remius]

The Federal Court of Appeal has upheld the Federal Court decision that the invocation of the Emergencies Act was unconstitutional.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/convoy-protest-emergencies-act-appeal-9.7046769

No surprise there. All that was needed was leadership at multiple levels to end that little hissy fit.

 

[Jarnhamar]

Now it's time for lawsuits for those who had their bank accounts wrongfully locked?

 

[brihard]

No surprise there. All that was needed was leadership at multiple levels to end that little hissy fit.

Yup. The Emergencies Act didn’t play into any of the criminal and provincial statute enforcement powers that were actually relied on on the ground. Everyone arrested and convicted was arrested and convicted on offences that were already on the books and clear in their application.

Good to have the FCA weigh in so that the government can decide if the EA as written and as linked to the CSIS act is up to the task for modern national security challenges.

 

[QV]

No surprise there. All that was needed was leadership at multiple levels to end that little hissy fit.

If it was only a little hissy fit, the GoC wouldn't have felt it had to enact the EA... it would have been handled like any other protest.

In fact it scared the shit out of the gov and they needed to crack it down hard.