{"id":1322967,"date":"2022-02-21T14:38:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T19:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1322967"},"modified":"2022-02-21T14:39:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T19:39:14","slug":"canada-justin-trudeau-insists-on-emergency-powers-despite-no-active-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canada-justin-trudeau-insists-on-emergency-powers-despite-no-active-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada: Justin Trudeau Insists on Emergency Powers Despite No Active Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcanada-justin-trudeau-insists-on-emergency-powers-despite-no-active-protests%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1322967&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insisted at a news conference on Monday that his government still needs the unprecedented emergency powers he demanded this month even though police violently removed the Freedom Convoy protesters from Ottawa and no active Freedom Convoy protests are currently occurring.<\/span><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cThis state of emergency is not over. There continue to be real concerns about the coming days,\u201d Trudeau <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/health-coronavirus-canada-trucking\/update-2-canada-emergency-powers-still-needed-pm-says-citing-signs-of-new-blockade-idINL1N2UW178\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> on Monday, claiming there were signs the Freedom Convoy truckers could regroup and return to Ottawa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cPeople [are] out there indicating that they are ready to blockade, to continue their illegal occupations to disrupt Canadians\u2019 lives. We feel that this measure needs to remain in place,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cInvoking the Emergencies Act has been necessary. Law enforcement agencies relied on it to set up secured areas in downtown Ottawa and at border crossings. It prevented foreign money from continuing to fund illegal blockades, and it\u2019s making sure our borders remain open. It has been the responsible thing to do,\u201d he argued.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Trudeau <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20220221-trudeau-canada-blockades-lifted-but-emergency-is-not-over\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> invoking the Emergencies Act was necessary because the police needed \u201cmore tools to restore order\u201d after \u201cweeks of dangerous and unlawful activities, after weeks of people being harassed in the neighborhoods, after evidence of increased ideologically motivated violent extremism activity across the country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The prime minister complained that \u201ca flood of misinformation and disinformation washed over Canada\u201d during the protests, and said the Freedom Convoy \u201creceived disturbing amounts of foreign funding to destabilize Canada\u2019s democracy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19959298\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19959298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/canada-police-line-trucker-protest-praying-getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person prays as police face off with demonstrators participating in a protest organized by truck drivers opposing vaccine mandates on Wellington St. on February 19, 2022 in Ottawa, Ontario. (Photo by Alex Kent\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cYou can\u2019t harass your fellow citizens who disagree with you. You can\u2019t hold a city hostage. You can\u2019t block a critical trade corridor and deprive people of their jobs,\u201d he said while insisting he still respects the right of Canadians to criticize his policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Trudeau <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realmonsanto\/status\/1495808582885036040\"><span>questioned<\/span><\/a><span> the judgment and patriotism of lawmakers who might vote against his extension of emergency powers, claiming their opposition indicates \u201cthey don\u2019t trust the government to make incredibly momentous and important decisions at a very difficult time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/2\/21\/trudeau-defends-use-of-emergency-powers-to-end-ottawa-occupation\"><span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/a><span> noted that Trudeau promised only last week that his emergency measures would be \u201ctime-limited, geographically-targeted, as well as reasonable and proportionate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insisted at a news conference on Monday that his government still needs the unprecedented emergency powers he demanded this month even though police violently removed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}