Tue Nov 29, 2022 – 6:35 pm EST
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – A top Canadian civil liberties group said that high thresholds in place for initiating the Emergencies Act (EA) were not met by the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who used the extra powers to crush the Freedom Convoy in February.
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) said Friday in a statement that “Trudeau agreed that the threshold for invoking the Emergencies Act shouldn’t be lower than the threshold for CSIS to surveil a single person.”
“Today’s admission by the Prime Minister confirms that the threshold before civil liberties can be severely restricted in the name of public order is a high one. CCLA maintains that the threshold was not met,” the organization said.
“The government exceeded the bounds of the law in taking the steps it did,” said Cara Zwibel, the CCLA’s director of fundamental freedoms who served as its legal counsel.
Zwibel added that Trudeau’s use of the EA “signals to future government about when parliamentary process can be bypassed to allow the government to rule by executive order.”
The EA was enacted on February 14.
During testimony before the Commission last week,
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