Mon May 9, 2022 – 7:38 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announced that his government was given intervenor status on legal cases fighting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act (EA) to crush the trucker Freedom Convoy.
“This court granted Alberta’s application to be an intervener in the constitutional and legal challenge of the Trudeau government’s application of the emergency act earlier this year. We believe that was unjust, unjustified, unnecessary, disproportionate to the challenge that was being faced in February and March of this year,” Kenney said Saturday.
“We announced several weeks ago that we would support the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Canadian Constitutional Foundation in their challenge at this court to the federal use of the emergency. So now our application has been granted, which means Alberta will be in court to join with others in defending the rights of Canadians and provincial jurisdiction under our Constitution.”
In a press release issued Friday, the Alberta government said it will be allowed to “intervene on the non-constitutional issues, such as the unnecessary invocation of the Emergencies Act, since the province already had the legislative tools necessary to stop
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