A day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act to give his government exceptional powers to end protests across the country, truckers remain parked just off Parliament Hill and it is still unclear when the blockades will come to a...
Security experts are also split on whether the act, which has not been invoked since it was drafted in 1988, was necessary to end the crisis.
Ryan Alford, a professor with Lakehead University, said comparing the protests on Parliament Hill to terrorism is an overreach by the government. He said the protest, however inconvenient and illegal, has not included widespread violence.Article content Wesley Wark, a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, said invoking the act was the right call. He said the protests were clearly beyond the scope of what local governments could handle.
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