Tue Feb 15, 2022 – 3:45 pm EST
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OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — An Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament has come out against Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s triggering of the Emergencies Act against peaceful protesters.
“Canada has embarked on a very dark and dangerous path,” said Randy Hillier, the Independent MPP for Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston.
“Justin Trudeau is using the War Measures Act … called the Emergencies Act, with all the same authorities as the War Measures Act, against … a peaceful civilian population who’s been engaged in dissent over public policy,” he specified. “We’re now using the War Measures Act for dissenting views on public policy.”
Hillier told reporter Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson that the War Measures Act, which was repealed in 1988 and replaced by the Emergencies Act, had been used to go to war against belligerent nations. He believes that triggering the “heavy-handed” measure was both completely unnecessary and unheard of, in liberal western countries, as a manner of quelling dissent.
“All the protests in our country would be over the moment the governments stated that they are turning to normal,” the MPP said. “A return to normal is now seen as
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