Tag: Canada

(16 February 2022) The Freedom Convoy protest may be soon approaching a climax after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act on Monday.  It is the first time the extraordinary measures have been used since his father, Pierre Trudeau, invoked its legal predecessor, the War Measures Act, in 1970 to combat a terrorist threat in the province of Quebec.  For the past three weeks, truckers from the Freedom Convoy have occupied downtown Ottawa, Canada's capital, in an protest to end vaccine mandates and Covid restrictions. We can...