Thu Feb 17, 2022 – 8:55 pm EST
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – During a question period yesterday in the House of Commons, Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) MPs roasted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his decision to trigger the Emergencies Act to deal with the trucker Freedom Convoy.
“The Emergency Measures Act is a declaration of a state of national urgency. It is a blunt force tool that should only be used under the most serious circumstances when legal powers have been exhausted. Canadians do not believe that this prime minister has exhausted all efforts,” Ontario CPC MP Dr. Leslyn Lewis said to Trudeau on Wednesday.
“The Emergency Measures Act gives extraordinary powers to the government. The prime minister would have received judicial advice from judicial officers. When will this prime minister make that advice available to the public?”
Trudeau responded to Lewis by claiming that “the Conservative Party is trying to have it both ways.”
Lewis told Trudeau that “Canadians are tired of talking points” and “want real answers.”
She then blasted him as a “failed leader” who robs “Canadians of hope and opportunity.”
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