Commentary
The Liberal government’s case for invoking the Emergencies Act in response to the truckers’ Freedom Convoy protests last February is falling apart and the formal inquiry into the use of the act hasn’t even begun yet. We are starting to see why the government repealed its own act mere days after invoking it and before the Senate would be able to debate it.
The streets of Ottawa had barely been cleared of protesters before government ministers and officials started desperately trying to make their case for having invoked the most powerful piece of legislation in the government’s arsenal….