what else don’t the lemmings realize and struggle to grasp?
with a city full of cops and more. How much danger was JT in, whilst hiding in his fortress. How hard and dangerous would it not have been, to invite a few in, have a hug and see them on their way? They only had weeks and weeks to scratch their heads and energize a few brain cells.
Done cya you are yesterdays news and forgotten about.
As for the lemmings here they’ve only had a year and more to scratch or squeeze their heads and. Not find brain cells, only weak deflections and denials.
What...... meet with a bunch of these monsters who do not know how to demonstrate peacefully? Maybe Pee pee should have shovedhis neck in that noose, as he adored these thugs:
So is the Ford Government irresponsible for standing with The federal Govt in this respect????
Ford government stands by use of Emergencies Act against 'Freedom Convoy' despite court decision
Ontario's support for Ottawa triggering the Emergencies Act to end the convoy blockade remains unwavering despite a
federal court ruling it was unconstitutional, says the deputy premier.
"We cannot have communities held hostage and not have access to critical infrastructure again," said Sylvia Jones, the province’s solicitor general during the winter 2022 protest against
COVID-19 pandemic restrictions that left downtown Ottawa effectively under siege for more than three weeks.
"We had ambulances and fire trucks who literally who could not go on certain roads, so something had to be done," Jones told reporters Wednesday in Burlington.
Her remarks came a day after Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley ruled there was no legal justification to use the Emergencies Act to quash the so-called "Freedom Convoy" protest, and that doing so had resulted in a breach of Canadians' Charter rights.
Mosley found the convoy participants' actions did not amount to a "national emergency" that would justify the use of the act, which is reserved for situations beyond the scope of existing laws and regulations.
The federal government,
which invoked the act with enthusiastic support from Premier Doug Ford, is planning to appeal the ruling.
Jones, who is now health minister as well as Ford's deputy, indicated Ontario would back that.
Ontario's support for Ottawa triggering the Emergencies Act to end the convoy blockade remains unwavering despite a
federal court ruling it was unconstitutional, says the deputy premier.
"We cannot have communities held hostage and not have access to critical infrastructure again," said Sylvia Jones, the province’s solicitor general during the winter 2022 protest against
COVID-19 pandemic restrictions that left downtown Ottawa effectively under siege for more than three weeks.
"We had ambulances and fire trucks who literally who could not go on certain roads, so something had to be done," Jones told reporters Wednesday in Burlington.
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Her remarks came a day after Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley ruled there was no legal justification to use the Emergencies Act to quash the so-called "Freedom Convoy" protest, and that doing so had resulted in a breach of Canadians' Charter rights.
Mosley found the convoy participants' actions did not amount to a "national emergency" that would justify the use of the act, which is reserved for situations beyond the scope of existing laws and regulations.
The federal government,
which invoked the act with enthusiastic support from Premier Doug Ford, is planning to appeal the ruling.
"Some of those impacts that were happening in our community, whether it was in Ottawa or in our border communities, had very direct and serious impacts, whether it was economic or socially," she said.
"But I will leave it to the federal government on whether they wish to appeal and how they will do that."
In his decision, Mosley said civil liberties were violated because use of the act led to protesters being barred from participating in demonstrations and having their bank accounts frozen.
"While I agree that the evidence supports the conclusion that the situation was critical and required an urgent resolution by government, the evidence, in my view, does not support the conclusion that it could not have been effectively dealt with under other laws of Canada," he wrote.
But Mosley’s findings are contrary to Justice Paul Rouleau’s conclusions last year at a legally mandated public inquiry into the act’s invocation, where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other senior officials testified.
Rouleau found — albeit "with reluctance" — that the federal government had met the legal threshold to impose the law.
While neither Jones nor Ford agreed to testify at the inquiry, the premier has said he stood "shoulder to shoulder" with Trudeau’s decision to crack down on the convoy protest.
Asked if Queen's Park could have done more to help convoy protests in Ottawa and on a Windsor road leading to the Ambassador Bridge into the U.S. — a major trade route for supplying auto factories and other industries — Jones noted the province did take extra steps.
"We worked very closely with both municipal leaders, as well as of course enforcement whether that was OPP or city police," she said.
"And we did put some additional measures in place including some new legislation that ensured going forward we could not have blockades that were going to impact our ability to access critical infrastructure or our border communities."
Jones emphasized "we believed at the time" it was legal for the federal government to invoke the Emergencies Act.
"I continue to believe that we need to ensure that demonstrations don't impact communities in a very visceral way."
Earlier, representatives of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association — one of the groups that successfully challenged the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act — told reporters in Toronto that the court ruling was a victory for civil rights in Canada, even if they agreed the "Freedom Convoy" protests of 2022 caused "serious hardship" for communities like Ottawa.
“CCLA's concerns, our challenge that led to yesterday's decision, were about the government giving itself massive and extraordinary emergency powers that may be necessary in a serious and extreme situation of a true national emergency as defined by that law, but were unreasonable in the circumstances," said Noa Mendelsohn Aviv, the CCLA's executive director.
As for the federal government’s appeal, Aviv said: “I want to be crystal clear. We will fight them tooth and nail at the Federal Court of Appeal. We will defend our historic victory for rights and leave no stone unturned.”
"Something had to be done," said Sylvia Jones, the province’s solicitor general during the winter 2022 protest against COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.
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When The Deputy Premier of Ontario is saying exactly what we were saying all along as to the reason why The Emergencies act was enforced in the first place, just means that these right wingers cannot even think for themselves for once!!
