Canada’s Trudeau defends crackdown on protests
The liberal PM said demonstrations are “worrisome” when they seek direct “changes to public policy” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has insisted his government was right to invoke sweeping emergency powers to quell mass street protests against Covid-19 mandates early this year, saying that drastic measures were needed to “keep people safe.” Addressing an official commission created to investigate Trudeau’s decision in February to activate the Emergencies Act for the first time in Canada’s history, the PM argued it was a “tough” but necessary decision given the chaotic demonstrations gripping the country at the time. “First of all, what...
The liberal PM said demonstrations are “worrisome” when they seek direct “changes to public policy” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has insisted his government was right to invoke sweeping emergency powers to quell mass street protests against Covid-19 mandates...
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