Court rules that Dictator Trudeau's actions against truckers was illegal

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/liberal-governments-invoking-of-emergencies-act-during-freedom-convoy-unreasonable-unjustified-ruling

The Liberal government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act in response to the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests was unreasonable, unjustified and violated the Charter, the Federal Court has ruled.

In a lengthy ruling published Tuesday, Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley found that though the Freedom Convoy protests in early 2022 were causing harm to Canada’s economy, trade and commerce, they did not rise to the level of a threat to national security as defined by the law. At the time, the Act was largely used to freeze some convoy participants’ bank accounts, compel tow truck companies to co-operate with local police clearing out blockades and mark parts of downtown Ottawa as a no-go zone.

“Emergency is not in the eye of the beholder. Emergency powers are necessary in extreme circumstances, but they are also dangerous to democracy. They should be used sparingly and carefully. They cannot be used even to address a massive and disruptive demonstration if that could have been dealt with through regular policing and laws,” the CCLA said in a statement.

In coming to his conclusion, the judge found that using the Act to create a no-go zone in downtown Ottawa to clear our protesters infringed on “peaceful” participants’ freedom of expression. He was also “concerned” about how government went about freezing some protesters’ bank accounts without concern for collateral effects, namely on family members and joint account holders. Thus, the measure breached their Charter right to be secure against unreasonable search and seizure, he concluded.

“Someone who had nothing to do with the protests could find themselves without the means to access necessaries for household and other family purposes while the accounts were suspended. There appears to have been no effort made to find a solution to that problem while the measures were in effect,” reads the ruling.