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Several Freedom Convoy protesters, buoyed by a recent victory in Canadian federal court, said they’re preparing to sue the federal government, banks, and the police that brought the 2022 protest to a heated end.(Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Shutterstock)“I think it’s the second phase to what took place with the federal court case,” military veteran and plaintiff Eddie Cornell said. “We’ve got a big hill to climb, but it’s something that’s necessary. It has to be done.”On Jan. 23, Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley issued a ruling against the federal government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act in response...

In a stunning turn of events, the Federal Court has delivered a significant blow to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government by deeming the use of the Emergencies Act during the Freedom Convoy protests as unconstitutional. This ruling comes after two years of the Trudeau regime and media labeling the truckers as illegal, only to face a resounding judgment from the court. The saga began with Trudeau and the regime media consistently referring to the truckers as illegal over the past two years. However, the tables turned dramatically when the Federal Court declared Trudeau's violent response during the protests as...

VIDEOCanada's Emergencies Act is only supposed to be invoked in the most extreme of circumstances in which there is a dire threat to the Canadian nation. In fact, the requirements are so extreme that it has only been invoked in Canada ONCE during the Freedom Convoy trucker protests last February. Yet, despite the requirement that only the most extreme threats to Canada can be used to justify it, a current inquiry panel has revealed the most trivial of reasons used by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to invoke the Emergencies Act such as a parking problem in downtown Ottawa and neurotic...

Residents and businesses were casualties of almost encyclopedic misjudgments by police, the city, the province and the federal government.... After four days, there were no terrorist incidents, no deaths, no injuries and no arrests. “If they’d left after that weekend, it would have been an insignificant event,” he said. “We’d have cleaned up the city and moved on.” However, the fateful decision by Ottawa Police Service (OPS) to allow trucks on to Parliament Hill, and to let protestors build what Kanellakos called a “logistical compound” at the city-owned parking lot next to a baseball stadium, ended any hopes of a...

LifeSiteNews reported on June 29 that Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have made the rare decision to waive cabinet confidentiality and “release the evidence it used to justify invoking the Emergencies Act to crush the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa earlier this year.”I believe this recent revelation will ultimately lead to Trudeau’s resignation. (snip)Like I said, he will never willingly enter into a battle he does not believe he can win – he is a coward. Therefore, he has two likely ways out.He will call another election and step down as party leader in the process, or he will simply step down...

Other than Liberal sycophants, most of us knew Trudeau was in way over his head. He wasn’t a deep thinker with a strong understanding of politics, economics or foreign policy. He had no life experience, business acumen or penchant for strategic communications.... This was going to be disastrous, and we were proven right. Trudeau’s list of political failures is massive. Three past instances of wearing blackface that he tried to hide. Public battles with female MPs and cabinet ministers — including Jody Wilson-Raybould, Jane Philpott and Celina Caesar-Chavannes — which exposed him as a faux feminist. Three trips to the...

According to the Canadian financial blog Armstrong Economics, the emergency powers activated by Justin Trudeau to cripple the trucker protests have sparked panic among citizens, which could lead to a devastating financial crisis. On Feb. 14, Trudeau enacted the Emergencies Act, which enabled Canadian banks to freeze the assets of anyone who donated to protests against the vaccine mandates — without due process or any court action. Trudeau then ordered the banks to unfreeze the accounts after the protesters had been cleared away. But what is reported to have happened after that is being ignored by the corporate press. Armstrong...

It looks like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau just blinked big time in his fight with the Freedom Convoy over COVID mandates.Trudeau is now backing down and has revoked the Emergencies Act that he called on Feb. 14, and that he just asked the House of Commons to pass on Monday. As we reported earlier, he needed approval from the nation’s Senate and it looked like a lot of the senators had big questions about passing it. I’m thinking it means that he got tipped that he wasn’t going to get it past the Senate, so it was better to revoke...

OTTAWA—The federal government says the RCMP is working with financial institutions to “unfreeze” bank accounts locked by emergency orders that targeted people who organized, participated in, or donated to the so-called Freedom Convoy blockades. Isabelle Jacques, assistant deputy minister of finance, told a Commons standing committee Tuesday that the RCMP began “sharing information” — related to the end of “unlawful” blockades — with banks and financial institutions as of Monday that should lead to affected accounts being “unfrozen.”

The fight for Canada’s freedom continues despite what Justin Trudeau and the legislature have done by approving the Emergencies Act to continue. The Liberal government won the vote 185-151 with the support of the New Democratic Party. Canadian psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson took to social media to remind Canadians of what the Emergencies Act was intended to do and to ask them if they believe the Trudeau regime is using it for that purpose. “Canadians, you have no idea what was done today in the name of — what? Safety? Punishment? What’s the rationale, even hypothetically? The Emergency Act was...

The Lieberals won the vote. The 'Emergencies Act' passed 185-151. The communist NDP voted with the Lieberals. The ONLY chance is that the Senate votes it down. I don't know when that me be. Canada is dead. MARANATHA

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insisted at a news conference on Monday that his government still needs the unprecedented emergency powers he demanded this month even though police violently removed the Freedom Convoy protesters from Ottawa and no active Freedom Convoy protests are currently occurring.

VIDEOSome of the early highlights of the ongoing debate in the Canadian Parliament over the Emergencies Act invoked by Justin Trudeau. This is only meant to give you a very brief view of the debate that is happening there during its early stages.

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) announced Thursday that it plans to sue the federal government over its decision to invoke the Emergencies Act in response to ongoing protests and blockades. "Emergency powers cannot and must not be normalized," said CCLA executive director Noa Mendelsohn. She said use of the act "seriously infringes on the Charter rights of Canadians." ... "Protest is how people in a democracy share their political messages of all kinds, whether they be environmental activists, students taking to the streets, Indigenous land defenders, workers on strike, people who know that Black lives matter, and others who...

Far-left Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced another round of heckling and widespread laughter in Parliament on Tuesday, prompting audible cackling at his use of the term “responsible leadership” after invoking the never-before-used Emergencies Act against anti-mandate protesters this week. The Emergencies Act is a law passed in 1988 that allows for widespread federal civil rights violations in the event of violent civil unrest, terrorism, and other emergencies. The law replaced the War Measures Act which granted similar sweeping powers and was last used by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, the current head of government’s father, against secessionist terrorists in Quebec....

David Freiheit (aka Viva Frei) joined Ezra to discuss the implications of Trudeau's invocation of the Emergencies Act to quell the peaceful Freedom Convoy protests in Canada.

With the federal Emergencies Act now invoked, federal ministers say “the work begins now” to implement it, with a desire to not have another weekend of protests in the nation’s capital. This comes as the government has revealed part of their motivation for enacting the powers was out of concern for “serious violence” for “political or ideological” achievements. “We now have the tools to do what needs to be done,” Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair told reporters Tuesday following a cabinet meeting. “That work begins now, and we have to continue with that work until we get the job done.”...

VIDEOIt is an emergency that was completely avoidable yet clueless Justin Trudeau poured gasoline on the fire and cornered himself into invoking the Emergencies Act. It was like the guy who set his car on fire in order to kill a spider played out on a national scale in Canada.