Appealing emergency powers ruling: Earlier this week, Canada's finance minister said the government will appeal a court ruling that declared unreasonable its use of emergency powers to shut down the Canadian trucker COVID-19 mandate protests in 2022.
"A federal judge earlier on Tuesday said the Liberal government's use of the Emergencies Act to clear the 'Freedom Convoy' demonstrations that paralyzed the national capital in 2022 was unreasonable and violated Charter rights," reports Reuters. The "Freedom Convoy" was a group of truckers who flooded into Canada's capital, Ottawa, to protest the cross-border vaccine mandate between Canada and the U.S., which threatened their ability to work and infringed on their medical freedom.
