Joanna Baron and Christine Van Geyn’s new book asks some very important questions about our civil liberties and how the government overreached and subjugated enshrined constitutional rights for public safety.
Has our government learned any lessons from what now seems to be great overreach as we entered year 2 of the pandemic? Their Excerpt was published in the National Post and it poses some great questions for Canadian readers to explore.
Book Excerpt: The law was invoked not in response to a natural disaster or the outbreak of war, but to a series of disruptive but largely peaceful protests
Author of the article: Christine Van Geyn and Joanna Baron, Special to National Post
Published Oct 08, 2023 • Last updated 6 days ago • 3 minute read 288 Comments
n a new book, Christine Van Geyn and Joanna Baron recount the Trudeau government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act to quell last year’s truckers’ convoy, and the threat it posed to civil liberties.
On Valentine’s Day of 2022, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held a news conference where he announced that his government was invoking the extraordinarily powerful federal Emergencies Act in response to the 2022 Freedom Convoy. Standing with four masked senior cabinet ministers in front of a row of Canadian flags, the prime minister announced that, “The scope of these measures will be time limited, geographically targeted, as well as reasonable and proportionate to the threats they are meant to address.… This is about keeping Canadians safe, protecting jobs and restoring faith in our institutions.”