Justin Trudeau Emergency Powers
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Canada’s security agencies drawing on lessons from ‘extraordinary’ convoy blockadeCanada's public safety minister says advice from law enforcement and security agencies was that existing laws were insufficient to clear convoy protests that paralyzed Ottawa.CanadaApr 27, 2022
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Ministers provide few details to committee probing Liberals’ use of Emergencies ActJustice Minister David Lametti repeatedly invoked cabinet confidentiality in his appearance before the special committee tasked with investigating the government's response.PoliticsApr 26, 2022
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Inquiry into Liberals’ emergency powers given power to compel witnesses, documentsNo decisions have been made on what government documents will be available to independent commissioner probing Liberal government’s use of emergency powersCanadaApr 25, 2022
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Committee examining Liberals’ emergency powers debates scope of inquiryOntario police told House of Commons committee that Ottawa’s convoy occupation was determined to be a national security threat on Feb. 7, declined to discuss nature of threat.CanadaMar 24, 2022
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Where’s ‘freedom’ from here? Canada’s convoy protests are over, but the anger remainsDowntown Ottawa has been cleared out and the border blockades lifted. But both Justin Trudeau and the Freedom Convoy protesters agree: this is not over.CanadaFeb 26, 2022
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‘Very unlikely’ assets of most small-time donors to Freedom Convoy would be frozen, MPs toldRoughly 206 accounts connected to so-called Freedom Convoy, totaling more than $7 million in assets, frozen under federal emergency powers.PoliticsFeb 22, 2022
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Canada’s public safety minister draws direct tie between Coutts, Ottawa protestsDeputy prime minister says federal emergency powers have already begun freezing bank accounts of protest organizers as tensions remain high in Ottawa.CanadaFeb 17, 2022
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Convoy protests a ‘threat to our democracy,’ Trudeau tells premiers in letterThe federal government announced emergency powers aimed at clearing blockades, including the occupation of the parliamentary precinct.CanadaFeb 16, 2022
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