The Emergencies Act inquiry final report found that almost all parties involved fell short of upholding the rule of law during the convoy protests.
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Approaches to security issues in Canada today need to learn from the dire histories of what happens under the banner of national security.
The Ottawa Police Services Board has been operating in secret in the aftermath of the so-called freedom convoy protest. It must cease, regardless of whether the public approves of its decisions.
There’s no equivalence between invoking the Emergencies Act and the pre-emptive invocation of the notwithstanding clause, which guts Canadian democracy and nullifies the Charter.
Protest is a way to keep potential abuses of the rule of law in check. But what happens if citizens and authorities feel protesters go too far in violating the rule of law?
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