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Canada's Trudeau to invoke rarely used emergency powers to end protests, CBC says
Reuteurs via mns ^ | 2/14/2022 | By Steve Scherer and David Ljunggre

Posted on 02/14/2022 7:51:43 AM PST by RomanSoldier19

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will inform provincial premiers of his intention to invoke special measures to give the federal government extraordinary powers to deal with protests that have shut some border crossings with the United States and paralyzed parts of Canada's capital, CBC News said on Monday.

Citing unnamed sources, CBC said Trudeau planned to invoke the Emergencies Act, a rarely used provision that allows the federal government to override the provinces and authorize special temporary measures to ensure security during national emergencies anywhere in the country.

It has only been used once in peacetime - by Trudeau’s father, former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau - during the so-called "October Crisis" in 1970. It was invoked twice during the two world wars, when it was known as the War Measures Act.

The CBC said Ottawa had no plans to send in the military.

A six-day blockade of North America's busiest trade corridor in Windsor, Ontario, ended on Sunday while protests in Ottawa entered a third week.

The "Freedom Convoy" protests, started by Canadian truckers opposing a vaccinate-or-quarantine mandate for cross-border drivers, have turned into a rallying point https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/how-ottawas-anti-vaccine-mandate-protests-are-spreading-globally-2022-02-09 for people opposing the policies of Trudeau's government, covering everything from pandemic restrictions to a carbon tax.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


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1 posted on 02/14/2022 7:51:43 AM PST by RomanSoldier19
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2 posted on 02/14/2022 7:53:21 AM PST by RomanSoldier19 (Res ad Triarios venit; )
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Canadian trucking firms need to go on a general strike. All of them.


3 posted on 02/14/2022 7:54:25 AM PST by datura (Eventually, the Lord and the Truth will win.)
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Justin Castro defaults to his genetic programming.


4 posted on 02/14/2022 7:55:08 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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He is going to go full Hitler...


5 posted on 02/14/2022 7:55:39 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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Or he could just end the mandates.


6 posted on 02/14/2022 7:56:43 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: datura

They may. They may also tell girlly boy to “invoke this!”. What a smarmy little POS. Castro’s illegitimate son?


7 posted on 02/14/2022 7:57:14 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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What emergency powers can he use that are going to work? Hmmm?

Very telling they wont drop all the stupid mandates.


8 posted on 02/14/2022 7:57:55 AM PST by Jonny7797
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Invoking MORE power..

Gee, I guess that just doing the right thing never crosses a politician’s mind..


9 posted on 02/14/2022 7:58:21 AM PST by joethedrummer (We can’t vote our way out of this, folks..)
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I’m calling it now, Joe’s handlers are going to have him do the same. Unlike Trump who should have but did not, they are biting at the bit for a reason to declare Marshal Law and lock in the Communist party permanently.


10 posted on 02/14/2022 7:58:29 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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He’s had several calls with Biden ( or whoever ) and this is the advice he received: use federal power to get “ tough” and double down

The “Corn Pop doctrine” for domestic crises


11 posted on 02/14/2022 7:58:43 AM PST by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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Yep, Trudeaușescu is coming into his own. You can bet he is salivating at with desire to use such power.


12 posted on 02/14/2022 7:58:52 AM PST by Skwor
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Imagine a Canadian court ordering a hold and save on any and all communications between Trudeau and anything related to the WEF (and associated young leadership acolytes), PRC, and big pharma.


13 posted on 02/14/2022 8:00:03 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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What’s he gonna do...put ‘em on double secret probation?


14 posted on 02/14/2022 8:00:23 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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A nations people will rally to the just cause of a nation. The COVID mandates have been found to be unjust. The govt imposing them can not stand.


15 posted on 02/14/2022 8:00:53 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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Canadian trucking firms need to go on a general strike. All of them.

I assume anything in mainstream media now is coordinated with the deep-state - but I them I have seen in several outlets now is very divisive race/ethnic angle. A large minority of truckers in Canada is now South Asian - Indian/Pakistani/Sikh.

Media is now pushing the narrative that these protests are old white guys - and the up-and-coming South Asians don't support the protests at all.

No doubt Trudeau and his woke leftists are pushing this highly destructive narrative.

16 posted on 02/14/2022 8:01:47 AM PST by PGR88
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“...they are biting at the bit for a reason to declare Marshal Law and lock in the Communist party permanently.”

Then it’s down to God, us, and our chosen swords in that order.


17 posted on 02/14/2022 8:05:05 AM PST by Luke21
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So Trudeau would override the provinces and are relaxing the mandates and other restrictions? Maybe he wants an armed insurrection, but I doubt the Canadians will do anything other than passive resistance and filing lawsuits. Trudeau must be removed. The Canadians need to figure out how.


18 posted on 02/14/2022 8:05:12 AM PST by Truth29
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“Or he could just end the mandates.”

He’ll do that AFTER he crushes his opponents, just to say THERE!

It’s what these types of people do.


19 posted on 02/14/2022 8:06:53 AM PST by cotton1706
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I bet that the emergency powers will re enact the vaccine passports and mask mandates in the provinces that dropped them.


20 posted on 02/14/2022 8:07:47 AM PST by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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