Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Act in the wake of trucker convoy protests in downtown Ottawa in February 2022 with Video 4233 Comments January 23, 2024 Canada Advertisement 4 Opinion: The long shadow of the Emergencies Act Book Excerpt: The law was invoked not in response to a ...
December 1, 2022Canadian Politics Kelly McParland: Emergencies Act inquiry uncovered a country that's easily unsettled Whatever Rouleau’s findings, we’re left with an impression of Canada we could have done without 250 Comments Kelly McParlandNovember 29, 2022NP Comment ...
A registered nurse takes a moment to look outside while attending to a ventilated COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit at the Humber River Hospital, in Toronto, Jan. 25, 2022. Canada's health ministers are set to meet in British Columbia this week, four months...
The Emergencies Act relies on the CSIS Act's definition of "threats to the security of Canada" in its own definition of what constitutes a public order emergency. Under the CSIS Act, a threat would require a "known actor" to be engaging in violence or carrying ou...
The Emergencies Act relies on the CSIS Act's definition of "threats to the security of Canada" in its own definition of what constitutes a public order emergency. Under the CSIS Act, a threat would require a "known actor" to be engaging in violence or carrying out...
OTTAWA — A former senior officer for the Ontario Provincial Police says the "Freedom Convoy" protests in Ottawa could have been ended without the federal Emergencies Act. Former Chief Supt.
“The Emergencies Act can only be invoked when a situation “seriously threatens the ability of the Government of Canada to preserve the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Canada” & when the situation “cannot be effectively dealt with under any other law of Canada,”...
OTTAWA, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- Canada's House of Commons on Monday night voted to pass the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act in response to the convoy blockades in Ottawa and at border crossings. The 185-151 vote was on a motion put forward by the Liberal government that ...
“One year ago I said: ‘In Canada, it is possible to disagree with, to condemn, and to call for the removal of illegal blockades, while also suggesting that the government use measures short of the Emergencies Act to achieve that.’ I still believe the government could have and should ...
“If there was a true emergency — which we say there wasn’t in this case — you would want to still be able to prosecute people for having breached the regulations or orders under the act after the revocation of the proclamation,” Cowling told Justice Richard Mosley. ...