Pierre Poilievre demands accountability for Trudeau gov’t over Emergencies Act abuse
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‘Everything this government has been saying about our truckers has been false from the very beginning,’ the Conservative MP said.
(LifeSiteNews) — Conservative Party of Canada MP and leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre is demanding that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party be held accountable for not having just cause to crack down on the Freedom Convoy with emergency powers.
During a heated debate in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Poilievre said that “not once, not twice, but 13 times” did Canada’s Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino claim that “police told him to suspend people’s civil liberties with the Emergencies Act.”
“Not only did the cops say that’s not true, but yesterday, two of his fellow ministers, including the deputy prime minister, said it’s not true, and today, the prime minister refused to say that his public safety minister had acted honourably,” Poilievre noted.
Poilievre then asked, “Why is he (Mendicino) still in cabinet?”
Trudeau did not give a direct answer, and instead attacked the Freedom Convoy protesters for disrupting “people’s lives,” claiming the use of the Emergencies Act (EA) against them was warranted.