Post by ComfortZone on Jan 26, 2024 7:57:09 GMT 12
Readers may recall during the COVID times the Canadian Truckies Protest (which preceded the NZ Freedom Protest), where the treatment of the protestors and supporters was beyond belief, protest leaders imprisoned without charge, protestors and supporters having their bank accounts frozen etc.
Of course not reported in the Mainly Socialist Media here, but in Canada the Federal Court has ruled against the governments (ab)use of emergency powers
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In a historic decision, Canada’s Federal Court on Tuesday ruled the Canadian government’s use of the Emergencies Act in 2022 to disperse truckers protesting the government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates was “unreasonable” and violated several articles of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The truckers, dubbed the “Convoy for Freedom,” organized a cross-country protest beginning in January 2022, following a Jan. 15, 2022, order by the Canadian federal government mandating the vaccine for all cross-border U.S. and Canadian truckers.
In his 190-page ruling, Justice Richard G. Mosley said the government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act “does not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness — justification, transparency and intelligibility — and was not justified in relation to the relevant factual and legal constraints that were required to be taken into consideration.”
The court ruled that invoking the Emergencies Act infringed upon Section 2(b) of the Charter, which protects freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, and Section 8, which pertains to the right to be secured from unreasonable seizure.
Unfortunately in NZ we have already seen the Police (and then government's) behaviour during the Freedom Protest whitewashed
Of course not reported in the Mainly Socialist Media here, but in Canada the Federal Court has ruled against the governments (ab)use of emergency powers
peckford42.wordpress.com/2024/01/25/canadian-truckers-score-big-victory-over-trudeau-in-federal-court/
opens
In a historic decision, Canada’s Federal Court on Tuesday ruled the Canadian government’s use of the Emergencies Act in 2022 to disperse truckers protesting the government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates was “unreasonable” and violated several articles of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The truckers, dubbed the “Convoy for Freedom,” organized a cross-country protest beginning in January 2022, following a Jan. 15, 2022, order by the Canadian federal government mandating the vaccine for all cross-border U.S. and Canadian truckers.
In his 190-page ruling, Justice Richard G. Mosley said the government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act “does not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness — justification, transparency and intelligibility — and was not justified in relation to the relevant factual and legal constraints that were required to be taken into consideration.”
The court ruled that invoking the Emergencies Act infringed upon Section 2(b) of the Charter, which protects freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, and Section 8, which pertains to the right to be secured from unreasonable seizure.
Unfortunately in NZ we have already seen the Police (and then government's) behaviour during the Freedom Protest whitewashed
