US EditionFederal use of Emergencies Act in 2022 was unreasonable: appeal court
The Federal Court of Appeal ruled Trudeau's 2022 Emergencies Act invocation was unlawful and infringed Charter rights, dismissing the government's appeal unanimously.
- On Friday morning around 11 a.m. ET, the Federal Court of Appeal upheld the lower-court ruling and the federal Liberal government lost its appeal.
- On Feb. 14, 2022, the Trudeau government invoked the Emergencies Act as authorities moved to clear protests that began opposing vaccine mandates and cited a weapons seizure in Coutts, Alberta.
- In its 2024 ruling, the Federal Court found that Justice Richard Mosley wrote the protests `reflected an unacceptable breakdown of public order` but concluded `there was no national emergency justifying the invocation of the Emergencies Act` and found some economic orders infringed Charter rights.
- A mandatory public inquiry led by Commissioner Paul Rouleau found the government's use of the Emergencies Act `appropriate` and met the `very high` threshold, while the federal government appealed swiftly and deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland vowed to pursue that appeal.
- The ruling now influences the legal threshold for a national emergency and Charter protections, shaping how courts interpret the Emergencies Act amid bank account freezes and tow-truck cooperation during Windsor, Ontario blockades.
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Use of Emergencies Act ruled unjustified, but got the job done
Even though I agreed with the federal government’s invoking of the Emergencies Act in February 2022 to bring the Freedom Convoy Protests to an end, I won’t quarrel with the Federal Court’s ruling dismissing the government’s appeal of a lower court decision that had found the invocation was unreasonable.
Court Confirms Trudeau’s Emergencies Act Invocation Against Freedom Convoy Was Illegal
by Christina Maas, Reclaim The Net: The damage is already done, but it turns out freezing the bank accounts of civil liberties protesters was never legal to begin with. The Trudeau government has been handed a bruising from the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal, which ruled that the 2022 declaration of a national emergency to […]
Appeals court slams Trudeau’s ‘emergency’ trucker crackdown
Canada’s Liberal government has lost its bid to overturn a 2024 Federal Court ruling that found its use of the Emergencies Act during the Freedom Convoy trucker protest was neither justified nor reasonable.Then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the legislation for the first time on Feb. 14, 2022, authorizing a sweeping police crackdown on protesters in Ottawa who opposed the federal government’s COVID-19 mandates.'That was a 200-page documen…
Federal Court of Appeal Decision on Freedom Convoy Affirms Rule of Law - The Thinking Conservative News
The Federal Court of Appeal upheld the ruling that the Trudeau government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act was unreasonable and unconstitutional. The post Federal Court of Appeal Decision on Freedom Convoy Affirms Rule of Law appeared first on The Thinking Conservative News.
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