The prime minister\u0027s cavalier approach to governance has eroded Canadian democracy
If the imposition of the Emergencies Act — the closest measure to martial law that exists in Canada, the summoning of full state power with the attendant amputation of civil liberties — did not automatically, intrinsically call for the most powerful, detailed and judicious review by qualified and totally independent authorities , then what is the threshold to be?
It gutted the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which is the central and supreme statement of the core liberties of Canada’s citizens. It authorized, or we are told it authorized, the state reaching into, with the silent co-operation of Canadian banks, citizens’ accounts — freezing them, a measure we justly associate with the wildest tyrannical states.Article content
And then there are the multiple incidences of offshore interference in our elections by the world’s second greatest superpower, and the world’s premier Communist tyranny. We have heard that an MP’s relations in China were put under threat by the Chinese government, and that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service made this known to our government, but the MP — Michael Chong — was left in cruel ignorance of the fact.
It simply cannot be tolerated that these two issues, of such magnitude and centrality to our self-government, can be shuffled aside by a few tawdry manoeuvres of a careless and reckless government. There is no choice here. Both a full public inquiry into Chinese interference, and at the very least a redo of the investigation into the enactment of the Emergencies Act, and why it was justified, are needed.
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