PM Trudeau to Testify in Canada's Emergencies Act Inquiry

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Culminating six weeks of public hearings inquiring into the Canadian government's use of the Emergencies Act during the Freedom Convoy protests against COVID measures earlier this year, PM Justin Trudeau will publicly testify in defense of his invocation of the law on Friday.
The Emergencies Act, authorized on Feb. 14, allowed authorities to freeze bank accounts connected to the demonstrations, ban travel to protest zones, and prohibit minors from unlawful assemblies, among others. By law, an inquiry is required after the use of the act.
Part of the inquiry involved collecting opinions from Canadians regarding the government's actions. The commission received around 9.5k submissions, with some describing the convoy as a nuisance while others said the government abused its power.
Meanwhile, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service assessed that the blockades didn't meet its definition of a national security threat.
In contrast, police have said they received hundreds of reports of abusive behavior by protesters, including harassing people wearing masks, threats and intimidation, and fireworks being set off in residential areas in the middle of the night.
The remainder of the investigation will see Trudeau and his ministers defend their decision to invoke the never-before-used law. It could also reveal details surrounding alleged communications between the highest levels of the US and Canadian governments.

Pro-establishment narrative, as provided by Security Magazine. The radical far-right mob called themselves the "Freedom Convoy" to hide their true colors. The anti-vax trucker movement was made up of dangerous conspiracy theorists that posed a clear threat to Canadians' safety during an already-dangerous pandemic. The government and police responses were completely justified during a time of an unprecedented uprising.
Establishment-critical narrative, as provided by PostMillennial. Trudeau was warned by his own intelligence agency that invoking the Emergencies Act would only escalate anti-government sentiment and potentially even violence. While protesters were exercising their rights to oppose extraordinary public health mandates, the government decided to exercise an assault on civil liberties. Labeling all protesters far-right conspiracy theorists is a deliberate distortion of the truth to justify this authoritarian crackdown.