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Originally Posted by Azure
Which part? Read the definition of the Emergency Act. It doesn't even necessarily apply to the protests in Ottawa. Not to the level of where you should be actually invoking it. Without using the military to actually physically clear out the protests, how exactly will the federal government do anything? Make a big ruh rah to the media about how the protestors are tearing the country apart and they should all be put in the gulag? 
As for the border blockades, they already have all the legal power & policing resources to clear them, but for whatever reason the government wasn't acting. With the Windsor blockade went, I guess it was the Ontario Police.
Its all a big let me show you what I'm going to do now without actually doing anything. Has been from the start. |
From what I understand,
The military really can't be used for police actions. Nor should it.
They can support the police with logistics and transportation and such, but they are not allowed to arrest anyone not in the military.
Really have no idea what the invoking of the emergencies act is supposed to do here, i guess we will get details later, but the last guy to use it (it replaced the War measures act) was papa T in relation to the FLQ crisis when actual real domestic terrorists were kidnapping and killing members of government.
This is not that.