Wed Feb 22, 2023 – 4:51 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — On this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show, Andrew Lawton joins Jonathon to give his take on the recent ruling that backed Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act against the Freedom Convoy. The two discuss why the ruling shouldn’t surprise us, the problems with “pandemic amnesty,” and developments related to the Freedom Convoy protests we should continue to watch for in 2023.
Lawton believes the Freedom Convoy protests, which authorities put an end to exactly one year ago, did not meet the most important criteria needed to lawfully invoke the Emergencies Act.
READ: Judge rules Trudeau gov’t use of Emergencies Act against Freedom Convoy was ‘reasonable’
“Even if a couple of the lower [thresholds] were met, it failed in the higher ones,” he says. “It requires there to be a threat to the security of Canada that causes an emergency that is national in proportion, and it also requires this [to be] something that cannot be dealt with by any other existing laws. And what we heard from police witnesses who testified was that they had all of these other tools at their disposal,
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