Thu Jun 23, 2022 – 6:41 pm EDT
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OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – A bipartisan group of Canadian MPs investigating the use of the Emergencies Act (EA) to crush the Freedom Convoy in February says such a crackdown should never happen again.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, the House of Commons finance committee concluded that the use of the EA must not be a “template for dealing with the public.”
In a report titled Invocation Of The Emergencies Act And Related Measures, Liberal and NDP members of the committee wrote that there should be “caution before invoking the Emergencies Act.”
The committee added that the government should also “refrain from using the precedent set by invoking the Act to end the trucker crisis as a template for dealing with the public.”
Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) MPs wrote in a dissenting report that the use of the EA “is a dangerous precedent and should trouble all Canadians.”
“Neither government, law enforcement nor witnesses made a compelling case the situation in Ottawa required the holus-bolus overriding of Canadians’
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