Canada’s premier of the province of Alberta, Jason Kenney, filed suit against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the nation’s federal government, citing the nature of the Emergencies Act as “unjustified in the circumstances,” according to a Saturday announcement.
The suit seeks to stymie Trudeau and his government from implementing the Emergencies Act to end the “Freedom Convoy” protests, according to a report.
“The situation in Ottawa is serious. Law and order has to be restored,” Kenney said.
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While he added that he feels protesters should not have the ability to blockade city streets, he said that “the Emergencies Act was designed to come into effect at the failure of the state … However, there is no insurrection or coup.”
Police in Ottawa, where the tuckers have protested vaccine mandates for weeks, have the justified ability to arrest and ticket illegally parked drivers, the report noted.
“Police services already have all the powers they need through provincial authority,” Kenney said. “All the tools already exist.”
Similar blockades in the past have been resolved using the ordinary police powers, he noted.
“Let’s stick to the basics here — the basics of law enforcement,” he said.
Kenney also disagreed with what he deemed the coercive measures Trudeau’s government imposed on the nation’s financial institutions.
Last week, Canadian authorities ordered the nation’s regulated financial firms to halt the facilitation of any transactions from at least 34 crypto wallets connected to the funding of the “Freedom Convoy” protests.
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The parts of the Emergencies Act that allow the government to do this were “designed to interrupt terrorism financing,” Kenney said, not to “seize and freeze” the assets of “people whose opinions they disagree with.”
