Thread by @ElkeBabiuk

1) This is on Conservative Premiers who, from the start, gave succor to anti-masking protesters & other lawbreakers.

"In asserting that federal emergency powers are not needed in Alberta, Premier Kenney is misconstruing

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2) the real reason for this proclamation of a national public order emergency. The emergency is not just the blockades and occupations, which were always just a symptom of what really ails Canada as the COVID-19 pandemic nears the two-year mark.

3) In my view, the real emergency is a governance and legitimacy crisis for government. An emergency which was created by the very sort of lawmaking practices exhibited by the Premier and his executive in addressing COVID-19, only further exacerbated the absence of any

4) significant use of enforcement powers under the Critical Infrastructure Defence Act to clear out the Coutts blockade."

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Kenney Govt "legitimacy crisis" led to PM Trudeau creating Emergencies Act to clear illegal occupiers

#abpoli's #COVID19 incompetence led to #OttawaOccupation

Markham Hislop's interview with Univ Law Prof Shaun Fluker
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