Groups spearheading legal challenges say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government broke the law when it invoked the Emergencies Act.
” crisis did not warrant the first-ever use of the Emergencies Act, and that the special powers created under that law — including powers to restrict public assemblies and freeze protesters’ bank accounts — violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
“I do not intend or consider my findings on this topic to be in any sense binding on the courts,” Rouleau wrote, stating that the Federal Court must decide how much weight to give his report. “He was very careful to ensure that a judge who would decide something differently than him would be deemed reasonable,” Moore said.
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