The RCMP explains how without the Emergencies Act they wouldn’t have been able to forcefully remove or prevent people from protesting in Ottawa against the covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates. “We don’t have anything in laws that prevent people from coming to protest, and we can’t turn them away...“, said RCMP Commissioner, Brenda Lucki testifying at the Commons’ Public Safety and National Security Committee. Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act (formerly the War Measures Act) gave the government and the RCMP sweeping powers to remove those politically inconvenient protesters from Ottawa.
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