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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. |
To me it puts the onus on the federal government to take control of this and eliminates the 'who's responsible' questions that provinces and the federal government have used to do nothing.