Mon Nov 28, 2022 – 8:20 pm EST
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – The author of Canada’s Emergencies Act (EA) himself directly warned a top Canadian minister that the use of extraordinary measures against the trucker Freedom Convoy would result in a host of “long-term issues.”
As per Blacklock’s Reporter, EA author Perrin Beatty in text message exchanges with Canadian Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland on February 22 said he was concerned about what using the EA meant for a future Canada.
“I am worried as I know you are,” Beatty wrote in his message to Freeland.
“There are also lots of long-term issues we need to consider once this is over including whether we need to take other measures that could obviate the need to use the extraordinary powers in the Act in the future and how to repair holes in our political system.”
Freeland was asked about the text message exchanges with Beatty last Thursday during her testimony before the Public Order Emergency Commission.
Beatty added that he was “particularly concerned” about the “radicalization of people who would normally be law-abiding and focused on going about their daily lives.”
The EA was enacted on February 14
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