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Originally Posted by Wormius
I wonder how many of those truckers got an earful from their angry spouses telling them to cut the crap and get the hell back home.
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I like to think it was probably the smell of 1,000+ unwashed truckers that finally broke themselves.
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Originally Posted by Smartcar
I think it was the frozen bank accounts and cancelled insurance that had results, and that wouldn’t have been possible without invoking the EMA.
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Well ya, of course invoking that act is going to work. If you can literally arrest everyone in a protest area and freeze assets, etc, how could it not be successful?
But that's why NDP leader Tommy Douglas' old quip that the War Measures Act (aka EMA) “is using a sledgehammer to crack a peanut" is so apt. Its a bad precedent and many on both sides are arguing an overreach. No one is debating it was effective.