iPolitics AM: PM to face MPs after invoking emergency powers – iPolitics

Feb 15, 2022

A day after becoming the first prime minister to invoke the Emergencies Act, Justin Trudeau will face his cross-aisle adversaries in the House of Commons later today, where he should be ready to defend his precedent-setting decision to give his government the power to end the anti-vaccine mandate protests that have shut down Canada-U.S. border crossings and ensnarled the streets surrounding Parliament Hill for the last three weeks.

As iPolitics reported yesterday, the sweeping, albeit temporary, new measures “include giving law enforcement more authority to impose fines and imprisonment; preventing large sums of money raised on crowdfunding sites like GoFundMe from reaching illegal protest organizers; and suspending the insurance of truck drivers who use their vehicles in blockades.”

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