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GG May 20, 2024

🇨🇦 Conservatives are deflecting #Poilievre's use of the Notwithstanding Clause citing the Emergencies Act.

👉 "The EA has very discrete & time-limited authorities & is used to protect society while still recognizing individual Charter rights. The NWC is used to outright remove Charter rights & its use has no review process or oversight.

The use of one is to protect society

The use of the other is to harm society by denying the rights of specific, usually minority, individuals" @scribulatora

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Alison Creekside May 20, 2024

@gemelliz @scribulatora
"That is waking the country up," said Elliot McDavid, one of the Milk River camp organizers, adding the protests had achieved their goal of forcing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to invoke the Emergencies Act to disband them."

Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/protests-politics-canadas-freedom-convoy-reverberates-2022-08-04/

In protests and politics, Canada's 'Freedom Convoy' reverberates

In late January five friends, just a few years out of high school, piled into a rented camper van and drove 37 hours in the Canadian winter from southern Alberta to Ottawa to join anti-government protests led by a convoy of truckers.

Reuters

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GG May 20, 2024

@AlisonCreekside @scribulatora

re @CanadianCrone "Conservatives instigate and then accuse the government when fallout from their behaviour brings consequences."

#poilievre #cdnpoli

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Alison Creekside

@gemelliz @scribulatora @CanadianCrone It's an indictment of our own media that Reuters was the only news org to actually get that stated intent from a Coutts/Milk River organizer on tape and no Canadian media at all reported on it.