Trudeau’s Use of Emergency Law Provokes Confusion and Criticism
- Banks seek answers on enforcing rules about freezing accounts
- Tories accuse Canada PM of ‘sledgehammer’ against protests
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended his use of emergency powers to get protests across Canada under control after the opposition Conservatives accused him of using an “unprecedented sledgehammer.”
Debate in the legislature turned fiery Tuesday after Trudeau’s government gave itself the power to ban public assembly in certain locations and ordered Canada’s banks to freeze the accounts of those involved in the blockades. Conservative Leader Candice Bergen said the prime minister’s decision to use the emergency law is about an “ideological attachment to keeping Covid restrictions and mandates.”