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Im no lawyer, but I'm Canadian and thought I would bring this up.
In a lengthy ruling published Tuesday, Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley found that though the Freedom Convoy protests in early 2022 were causing harm to Canada’s economy, trade and commerce, they did not rise to the level of a threat to national security as defined by the law.
I have tried to read some of the decision. The judge who admits that he was initially in favor of the Act's invoking at the time, admits now that he believes it was an over reaction, and that all signs indicated the provinces were already shutting down the protests without any bloodshed.
“I have concluded that the decision to issue the Proclamation (of the Emergencies Act) does not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness – justification, transparency and intelligibility – and was not justified,” Mosley wrote.
Personally I have thought that Trudeau just wanted to emulate his father... And also didnt want to give Premier Ford the win of clearing out the Ottawa protestors peacefully. He brought in a bunch of cops from northern Quebec to bust Anglo heads.
On the same day, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said the government did not agree with Mosley’s decision and promised to appeal it.
The judge reads like an old 70s era liberal and was very pro-public interests groups. The decision has been an interesting read.
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Too bad these things rarely come in any sort of timely fashion to make any difference.
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So --- will Trudeau and the Canadians pols who helped him, have to pay 'reparations' to the truckers, etc., who had their trucks impounded, their homes raided, bank accounts frozen, arrested --- anything? It took two years plus for this judgement to come down, and how have the people impacted the most (don't say the truckers weren't the most impacted!), fared since then?
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You mean Castro, right?
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Pretty sure either Pierre or Fidel works for TWW.
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