Mon Feb 21, 2022 – 1:22 pm EST
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(WND News Center) – The truckers convoy in Canada, launched to protest the national regime’s COVID mandates, has been at least partly successful as multiple provinces have begun backing down on their requirements.
But it triggered a reaction from that federal government, led by Justin Trudeau, that has been draconian, critics note.
Already, people have been visited – and warned – at their homes for posting social media statements in support of the truckers, those supplying them with fuel have been arrested, one official was forced out of her job for supporting the movement.
Even the Canadian Civil Liberties Association has slammed Trudeau for “bypassing the democratic process” by declaring a national emergency that gives him great police and enforcement powers.
But perhaps the most severe criticism, so far, has come from U.S. constitutional expert Jonathan Turley.
Turley warned that so extreme was the government’s action that under its precedent, Martin Luther King could have been arrested, in his day.
“For the first time in history, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act to crack down
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