Emergencies Act’s use to quell trucker-convoy protests no threat to civil liberties, says law’s architect

Now, the work of a parliamentary review committee and inquiry should be towards the goal of eliminating the need to invoke the act in comparable circumstances in the future, says former defence minister Perrin Beatty.

Police face off against protesters on Feb. 18 as part of a massive law enforcement effort to clear protesters from Ottawa's downtown after 'Freedom Convoy' demonstrations occupied the area for three weeks.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY CHRISTOPHER GULY

March 18, 2022

When a special parliamentary committee and a yet-to-be-formed independent inquiry review the federal government’s first-ever use of the Emergencies Act, the former cabinet minister who was the 1988 law’s architect says they should consider how to “eliminate” the need to invoke it again in co...

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