In an attempt to put an end to the protests, the Canadian Prime Minister invoked the emergency law on Monday.
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The executive raises his voice. The anti-sanitary measures protest that has been going on for almost three weeks in several cities across the country no longer has anything “peaceful”, said Justin Trudeau Thursday, February 17 during a speech in the House of Commons. He added that it was time to “restore confidence in (the) institutions”.
On Monday, the Prime Minister invoked the use of the Emergencies Act for the second time in Canada’s peacetime history. This provision, which allows recourse to “extraordinary measures”, was last used during the 1970 crisis in Quebec when Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the father of the current Prime Minister, led Canada.
Initially minimized by the authorities, the Canadian protest movement which began at the end of January started with truckers protesting against the obligation to be vaccinated to cross the border between Canada and the United States. But the demands have extended to a refusal of all health measures and, for many demonstrators, to a rejection of the government of Justin Trudeau.