Justin Trudeau Grabs Dictatorial Powers, Declares State Of Emergency To Crush Unacceptable Freedom Views

Posted on : 15/02/2022 By
Justin Trudeau Grabs Dictatorial Powers, Declares State Of Emergency To Crush Unacceptable Freedom Views
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Canada has declared a state of emergency in crackdown on trucker protests, first time since the two world wars and a Quebec insurrection that allows jailing and confiscating property and money from anyone suspecting of holding “unacceptable views”. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time to squash the ongoing Freedom Convoy protests against coronavirus restrictions, potentially giving the Canadian leader sweeping emergency powers.

For the first time since his father did it half a century ago, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has declared a national emergency, invoking extraordinary powers as the trucker-led protests against COVID-19 vaccine mandates continued for their 18th day. The Emergencies Act replaced the prior War Measures Act that was used by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, the current prime minister’s father, during the October crisis of 1970 when members of the far-left terrorist Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped and murdered Quebec Deputy Premier Pierre Laporte.

Invoking the act gives the federal government, among other things, the right to ban public assembly and seize property to restore order, Canada’s CBC News reported.

And the premiers of four Canadian provinces — Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec and Saskatchewan — spoke out against the move.

Meanwhile, Canada’s deputy prime minister and minister of finance, Chrystia Freeland, announced Monday that the federal government is targeting the crowd-funding of the truckers leading the protest through a terror-finance law.

“We are broadening the scope of Canada’s anti-money laundering and terrorist-financing rules so that they cover crowd funding platforms and the payment service providers they use,” Freeland said in a televised announcement.

The minister said the “illegal blockades have highlighted the fact that crowd-funding platforms and some of the payment service providers they use are not fully captured under the Proceeds of Crime and Terrorist Financing Act.”

Freeland is a member of the board of trustees of the World Economic Forum, the group that hosts the elite Davos conference and has declared the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to “reset capitalism” and accelerate its globalist aims.

Finance Minister and WEF governor Chrystia Freeland — seen here with Trudeau and Soros — is launching a crackdown on crowdfunding sites, traditional bank accounts and crypto-currency.

See Freeland’s announcement:

Reacting to Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act to “supplement provincial and territorial capacity to address the blockades and occupations,” Alberta Premier Jason Kenney accused the prime minister of overreach.

“We have the operational resources that we need to enforce, and I think at this point for the federal government to reach in over top of us without offering anything in particular would frankly be unhelpful,” he said.

Kenney said he’s “concerned that there’s a certain kind of person that if the federal government proceeds with this, who will be further inflamed and that could lead to prolongation of some of these protests.”

Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson said in a statement that “the sweeping effects and signals associated with the never-before-used Emergencies Act are not constructive here in Manitoba, where caution must be taken against overreach and unintended negative consequences.”

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe also accused Trudeau of overreach.

‘The illegal blockades must end, but police already have sufficient tools to enforce the law and clear the blockades, as they did over the weekend in Windsor,” he wrote on Twitter. “Therefore, Saskatchewan does not support the Trudeau government invoking the Emergencies Act.”

Premier François Legault of Quebec, which was the target of Pierre Trudeau’s Emergences Act crackdown in 1970, told the Montreal Gazette “we do not want a federal state of emergency on the territory of Quebec.”

Brief description of the Emergencies Act:

What is the Emergencies Act?

Adopted in 1988, the Emergencies Act (also known as Loi sur les mesures d’urgence) authorizes the federal government in Ottawa to temporarily claim extraordinary powers in response to an emergency that “seriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians and is of such proportions or nature as to exceed the capacity or authority of a province to deal with it.”

Has it been used before?

The Emergencies Act had never been invoked before. The Canadian state broadcaster CBC called its invocation on Monday “unprecedented.”
Its previous version, the War Measures Act of 1914, had been used three times previously – in response to the First World War, the Second World War, and the October Crisis of 1970, when French-speaking separatists in the province of Quebec abducted a member of parliament. The PM who invoked it at that point was Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the current PM’s father.

Is this martial law?

Technically, no. Trudeau himself pointed out there will be no troops in the streets. However, the emergency powers vastly increase the power of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to act against what the PM called “illegal” blockades and “occupations” in specifically designated locations. It also grants the government’s financial intelligence agency FinTrac additional authority over banking, online fundraising, and cryptocurrency transactions.

Which measures will be taken?

According to Trudeau, local police will have “more tools to restore order” in places where public assemblies have been declared “illegal and dangerous” – such as outside the parliament in Ottawa and at US-Canada border crossings. The RCMP will also be able to enforce provincial and municipal laws where required.

Border crossings and airports have been designated “critical areas” and will be kept clear of demonstrators. The government is also empowered to commandeer the services of towing companies to remove the big rigs used by protesters.
The government has told banks to “review their relationships” with anyone involved with the protests and freeze their assets without a court order. FinTrac’s authority over cryptocurrency translations, crowdfunding platforms and payment service providers has been expanded under laws against money-laundering and terrorist financing.

How long will it last?

The emergency went into effect on Monday afternoon and is initially supposed to be in effect for 30 days, though it could be extended. Under the law, the parliament must approve the declaration of emergency within seven days; it would be revoked if either house votes against it.

While Trudeau runs a minority cabinet, Canadian media have reported that his de facto partner NDP will back the emergency declaration. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh said his party would vote with Trudeau’s Liberals, and that he only blames the PM for not cracking down on the truckers sooner.

“Saskatchewan does not support the Trudeau government invoking the Emergencies Act. If the federal government does proceed with this measure, I would hope it would only be invoked in provinces that request it, as the legislation allows,” Moe said on Twitter.

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has also stated his opposition, saying, “We have the legal powers that we need. We have the operational resources that we need to enforce, and I think at this point for the federal government to reach in over top of us without offering anything in particular would frankly be unhelpful.”

Alberta is one of the provinces dealing with a Freedom Convoy blockade at the town of Coutts along the United States border, which has been ongoing for the last two weeks.

While the protestors did lift the blockade temporarily, it resumed last week, despite Alberta lifting several restrictions, including its vaccine passport system.

In Manitoba, where a blockade was set up at the border in the town of Emerson, Premier Heather Stefanson released a statement saying that she did not support the use of the act either.

“In my view, the sweeping effects and signals associated with the never-before-used Emergencies Act are not constructive here in Manitoba, where caution must be taken against overreach and unintended negative consequences,” Stefanson said.

“While the situation is very different in Ontario, this ultimate federal legislation should only be considered on a measured and proportional basis, in locations where it is truly needed,” she added.

Francois Legault, premier of the French-speaking province of Quebec, has also come out against the Emergencies Act, saying, “I think that I was very clear with the prime minister that the federal Emergencies Act should not, must not apply in Quebec.”

“We don’t have any problems in Quebec so far. The Sureté du Québec has everything under control,” he said but claimed the situation in Ottawa, Ontario, was different than any protests taking place in Quebec.

“I can understand that enough is enough in Ottawa. You can protest, but you can’t do what they’ve been doing for two weeks,” Legault said.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford stated Monday morning that he supported Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act just days after Ford declared a province-wide state of emergency to end several border blockades in Ontario, including the blockade of the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, which sees large volumes of cross-border trade.

“I support the federal government and any proposal they have to bring law and order back to our province, to make sure we stabilize our business and trade around the world,” Ford said.

 

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