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Finally this group engages in a useful procedure. The world is looking at us and we are no longer in a position (haven't been for some time really) to lecture N Korea, Iran or anyone else when we apply a law to ALL Canadians, based on a protest.
This is especially true now that the police have broken up two border blockades without using this law. This is clearly an over reach, and, it effects Americans too as about 40% of the donors were from the U.S, their banking information is now in the hands of the Canadian federal government.
www.cp24.com
OTTAWA - The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is seeking a judicial review of the government's decision to invoke the Emergencies Act to quell anti-government protests in downtown Ottawa and elsewhere.
The group says it does not want to minimize the impacts that the protests are having across the country, but it is unclear that the demonstrations endanger the lives, health or safety of Canadians so seriously that they constitute a national emergency.
It says police deal with complex law-enforcement issues every day and have cleared multiple border blockades across the country without emergency powers.
The group's criminal justice director Abby Deshman says the Emergencies Act orders do not apply only in Ottawa and affect the rights of every Canadian.
This is especially true now that the police have broken up two border blockades without using this law. This is clearly an over reach, and, it effects Americans too as about 40% of the donors were from the U.S, their banking information is now in the hands of the Canadian federal government.
PM says Emergencies Act is 'last resort,' civil liberties group files court action
The federal government faced a constitutional challenge Thursday over its historic invocation of the Emergencies Act, as police began to move on protesters with large trucks paralyzing the heart of the national capital.
www.cp24.com
OTTAWA - The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is seeking a judicial review of the government's decision to invoke the Emergencies Act to quell anti-government protests in downtown Ottawa and elsewhere.
The group says it does not want to minimize the impacts that the protests are having across the country, but it is unclear that the demonstrations endanger the lives, health or safety of Canadians so seriously that they constitute a national emergency.
It says police deal with complex law-enforcement issues every day and have cleared multiple border blockades across the country without emergency powers.
The group's criminal justice director Abby Deshman says the Emergencies Act orders do not apply only in Ottawa and affect the rights of every Canadian.
