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as “espionage or sabotage,” “foreign influenced activities,” a movement to overthrow the government or the “threat or use of acts of serious violence against persons or property for the purpose of achieving a political, religious or ideological objective.”Article contentto have the Senate and Governor General override laws passed by Parliament and the provincial legislatures does not constitute a legitimate coup attempt, and the protests themselves were relatively non-violent.
The Emergencies Act states that an emergency can be declared if the government “believes, on reasonable grounds, that a public order emergency exists,” but simply deferring to the government’s belief on this question, which Rouleau seems to be doing, rather than interrogating it, is, again, a cop out.Article content
And even though the government refused to produce the legal advice it was given to justify its actions, here Rouleau shrugged again. “Each of them explained what they believed those thresholds to be. I do not need to see the legal advice itself in order to accept the evidence that they believed their conclusions to be justified in law,” he said.
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