Police enforce an injunction against protesters, some who have been camped in their trucks near Parliament Hill for weeks, on Feb. 19, 2022.
The federal government has filed an appeal to contest a federal court's decision that said the use of the Emergencies Act in early 2022 to clear convoy protesters from downtown Ottawa was unreasonable and infringed on Charter rights.Posted: Feb 23, 2024 7:16 PM EST | Last Updated: 27 minutes ago
, Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley ruled that while the protests against the federal government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic "reflected an unacceptable breakdown of public order," the invocation of the Emergencies Act "does not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness — justification, transparency and intelligibility."
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government invoked the Emergencies Act on Feb. 14, 2022, after thousands of protesters angry with the Liberal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including vaccine requirements, gridlocked downtown Ottawa for nearly a month and blocked border points elsewhere across the country.
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