This is only the second time in peacetime that this legislative provision has been used by the Canadian government.
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They hope to end to a historical dispute. Canadian parliamentarians approved, Monday evening, February 21, the use of an exceptional law invoked last week by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in order to extinguish the opposition. of the “Freedom Convoy” against public health measures.
MPs voted 185 to 151 in favor of the Emergencies Act, a last resort legislative provision that can be used by the Government of Canada in the event of “national crisis”. The Senate must now debate it in turn. This is only the second time this law has been invoked in peacetime Canada.
The additional powers conferred by law, for example the freezing of the bank accounts of certain demonstrators, have been applied in recent days by government institutions, but the Canadian Parliament still had to “ratify the law”explained Geneviève Tellier, professor at the University of Ottawa.