The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - January 23, 2024


Liberals full of excuses after court rules against Emergencies Act use


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A Federal Court of Appeal has ruled that the government's use of the Emergencies Act to crack down on the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa in 2022 was a violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and infringed on the rights of protesters.

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00:00:00.000 I am sure that you are all very well aware at this point that a federal justice court, Richard Mosley, has ruled against the government of Canada on their use of the Emergencies Act to crack down on the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa back in January and February of 2022.
00:00:16.220 Although the judge did say that, yes, there were certain aspects of the protests that were illegal and nobody would doubt that you can't just park trucks on the street for days on end without incurring some sort of fines, which the convoy leaders were perfectly fined with paying off in order to keep the trucks there as long as possible, that the government cannot just willy-nilly declare an emergency because they don't happen to like the tone or tenor of a protest.
00:00:40.560 The Freedom Convoy itself being kind of like a music festival, very happy and lively, not that many angry people, mostly people just having a laugh at the government's expense, rightfully so in my mind.
00:00:52.240 I want to read a couple of little sort of sentences that came out of this decision.
00:00:56.720 I will have it linked below a substack where someone does a more fine breakdown of the sort of Freedom Convoy decision that the courts handed down,
00:01:05.160 but you don't really want to hear me the entire show just talking about these kind of minute little factual details of the case.
00:01:13.000 Obviously, the Liberals are going to appeal this decision and that's more of what I want to talk about.
00:01:17.960 But before I get into that, I just want to quickly plug the fact that I, Wyatt Claypool, I'm running in the riding of Calgary-Signal Hill for the Conservative Party nomination federally.
00:01:27.720 If you live in that riding, except for the Greenbrier and Bowness areas because they're being cut out soon when the boundaries change,
00:01:33.440 if you live in that riding, buy a Conservative Party membership.
00:01:36.540 My website for my campaign is in the description below, wyattclaypool.com.
00:01:41.000 Go check that out, buy a membership if you want real Conservatives representing these ridings.
00:01:44.660 There's a lot of red Tories trying to take these strong Conservative ridings and I'm running against a lot of them.
00:01:49.620 But here's some of the sentences that came out of this decision.
00:01:52.760 I'm reading some of the excerpts that people have posted.
00:01:55.260 So this is something that Andrew Sheard posted.
00:01:56.840 It's on point seven because, of course, all these federal decisions, any court decision breaks down into the different factual points that the judge is ruling on.
00:02:05.580 This is number seven.
00:02:06.480 He says, on the substantive issues, I have concluded that the application of Edward Cornell and Vincent Gersey, the CCLA and the CCF, must be granted in part for reasons discussed below.
00:02:18.420 In brief, I found that the reasons provided for the decision to declare a public order emergency do not satisfy the requirements of the Emergencies Act and that certain of the temporary measures adopted to deal with protest infringe provisions of the Canadian Charter of Rights.
00:02:33.360 One of the aspects that was cited heavily was the freezing of bank accounts, freezing a pregnant single mother in BC's account so that she cannot buy food and medication for herself and her children because she happened to give $50 to the Freedom Convoy.
00:02:49.500 That's the sort of thing that is just ridiculous that the Liberals are even trying to fight back against this decision because of.
00:02:56.500 It looked really bad, and you can cite polling all day long showing, well, 60% of Canadians still think that the Emergencies Act was justified.
00:03:05.220 Well, 40% don't, and that's a growing 40% that do not believe this.
00:03:09.920 The 60% who believe that the Emergencies Act was necessary are not a particularly motivated voting bloc.
00:03:18.800 That's kind of what I would consider, I guess, the normie kind of perspective that, oh, I guess there was a big protest and, you know, emergency measures were probably needed because they believe, or at least very passively believe a lot of things that they hear in the media, that these are extremists, these are fascists.
00:03:32.900 All those stupid fascism cartoons that came out from the different legacy media outlets saying that the truckers were coming to Ottawa to promote fascism, even though they were standing against vaccine mandates and lockdowns.
00:03:44.820 They're very, very silly.
00:03:46.160 Here's another couple of points that were taken out of this decision that I just want to quickly talk about.
00:03:52.840 And yeah, so number four point, it says, it is declared that the regulations infringed Section 2B of the Charter and declared that the order infringed Section 8 of the Charter and that neither infringement was justified under Section 1.
00:04:07.940 And that, yeah, you can keep going on and that, yeah, you can keep going down here.
00:04:10.860 And a lot of the stuff is that basically what the government had done with Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland was effectively treating this protest as if it was terrorism.
00:04:23.160 During the FLQ crisis in the 70s, with Justin Trudeau's dad, Pierre Trudeau, with the War Measures Act, you could justify that there was people dying, there was a terrorist group running around, hiding behind, being hidden by members of the public potentially, and that they need curfews in place.
00:04:41.760 And then they needed more measures to be able to hunt these people down.
00:04:44.540 Even that was shaky.
00:04:45.780 The fact that people are trying to say that it was justified in this case that there was going to be a January 6th style takeover of Parliament was ridiculous.
00:04:53.520 If anything, it was actually the government officials having cops move in in very reckless fashion that created any violence.
00:05:01.220 And the vast majority of the violence on the sort of attack day by the police was not because of the convoy protesters.
00:05:07.980 They mostly just kind of stayed huddled and made it difficult for the cops to get rid of them.
00:05:12.000 The cops are the ones running people over with horses and whatnot. 0.98
00:05:15.060 And this is where I get to the part about Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland declaring that they're going to appeal this decision.
00:05:22.300 A horrifyingly stupid thing to do.
00:05:25.080 Why would you ever appeal this?
00:05:27.120 It just makes you look petty.
00:05:28.560 It makes you look like you don't know what Canadians actually care about.
00:05:32.120 Nobody thinks that this is like something that the federal government should be actively pushing on.
00:05:38.180 The 60% of people who still think the Emergencies Act was justified are not voting against the Conservatives because maybe they thought it was unjustified too.
00:05:46.620 The 60% who think it was justified are mostly people who don't really pay attention to this issue.
00:05:51.300 The 40% who think it was unjustified are actively passionate about voting for whoever justifies that, about voting against whoever justifies that.
00:06:00.700 I just want to pull up exactly what Chrystia Freeland said.
00:06:03.800 So what she had basically said is that we took these decisions with a heavy heart that were not actions we took with any satisfaction, justifying why the Emergencies Act was used.
00:06:13.740 Who cares if you had a heavy heart about it, Chrystia? 0.92
00:06:15.740 If it was not the right thing to do, it was not the right thing to do.
00:06:19.880 You cannot violate people's rights, the courts deciding that you did violate people's rights and say, well, we didn't do it for fun.
00:06:26.700 I didn't think you did it for fun.
00:06:27.940 I think you did it because you didn't like people pushing back on your mandate policy and building up support against it.
00:06:33.400 I want to maybe, I can maybe pull up this video right here.
00:06:36.260 It'll take me a second, but it is quite remarkable how parties cannot get off issues.
00:06:44.420 The Liberals should be just moving on to household bread and butter issues.
00:06:48.560 This is carrying a lot of their attention.
00:06:51.540 This is sort of eating up a lot of their attention because the Liberals have nothing else but the social issues, but the cultural issues.
00:06:57.640 Their economy sucks, their woke, their sort of woke politics are not appealing to anybody so that the worst they can do or the best they can do before the next election is try and paint pure poly of the Conservatives as if they're, you know, Trumpian Republicans and they want to have a January 6th style attack on the Parliament and they support this convoy.
00:07:17.400 I guarantee in the next 24 hours, that will be the narrative from the Liberals.
00:07:22.180 But I'm just getting the clip up here.
00:07:23.520 This is Christia Freeland justifying the government's appeal of the Emergencies Act decision and saying why it was still right for the government to suspend people's rights.
00:07:35.500 It didn't just take issue with the path that you acted.
00:07:37.840 It took issue with how you acted and how you wrote the regulations you did, including in that PCO memo.
00:07:42.700 There's a warning that the decisions you're taking and how you're writing them were open to constitutional challenge.
00:07:48.260 Looking back, was there a necessary step you had to take to minimize the constitutional impact of these regulations?
00:07:54.100 And did you do a good job of respecting Canadian civil liberties in writing those regulations?
00:07:59.720 Last question.
00:08:03.480 Look, I truly do not want to minimize.
00:08:08.060 The fact that we took these decisions with a heavy heart.
00:08:14.940 This was not a situation we wanted to find ourselves in.
00:08:18.520 And these were not actions we took with any satisfaction or relish.
00:08:26.700 This was, however, and I want people to remember that,
00:08:31.380 an extremely tense time.
00:08:34.800 The safety of individual Canadians was under real threat,
00:08:41.920 as Minister LeBlanc has pointed out.
00:08:44.520 Our national security was under real threat,
00:08:48.760 our national security, including our economic security.
00:08:52.720 That was the reality of that moment.
00:08:55.640 We explored many, many avenues to bring this to an end.
00:09:02.920 And this was an option of the last resort.
00:09:08.640 We believed at the time that it was absolutely necessary for us to act,
00:09:15.520 and for us to act in a way that minimized the physical danger to all Canadians.
00:09:23.900 That was really important to us.
00:09:27.980 We believed we were doing something necessary and something legal at the time.
00:09:35.120 That was our belief then.
00:09:37.060 That was our belief as we testified at length to Chief Justice Rouleau.
00:09:43.380 That continues to be my belief today.
00:09:45.360 Today, as our Minister of Justice has said,
00:09:49.040 we will, confident in that belief, be appealing this decision.
00:09:53.140 Absolutely pathetic.
00:09:56.860 The idea that it's a tense situation,
00:09:58.820 we had to do it because we were so tense.
00:10:01.040 That is a horrible justification.
00:10:03.860 The idea that we did it with a heavy heart doesn't mean anything.
00:10:07.600 What national security threat?
00:10:09.460 Are they talking about the random four coots guys who are in prison 1.00
00:10:12.480 because they had, like, guns two kilometers away from wherever they were protesting?
00:10:17.340 Yeah, probably a stupid idea.
00:10:19.580 The government didn't even know about that at the time.
00:10:21.720 So when they had actually undertaken,
00:10:24.120 when they had actually invoked the Emergencies Act,
00:10:25.940 they didn't even know that they were going to have that sort of,
00:10:28.380 you know, justification or excuse fall into their lap.
00:10:31.600 You don't get to just use emergency powers
00:10:33.760 and hope that you find something out there in the streets
00:10:36.300 that was, like, somewhat unsavory to then justify the entire thing.
00:10:40.840 They trampled an old lady in a walker with a horse.
00:10:44.980 How was that part of preserving Canadian national security and economic security?
00:10:49.660 The government was locking people down
00:10:52.040 and destroying the ability for certain truckers to make a significant income
00:10:56.840 by going to the United States.
00:10:58.920 What?
00:10:59.700 No.
00:11:00.160 If anything, they had hurt national security and our economic security.
00:11:05.220 Think about all the money that the truckers actually spent
00:11:07.540 in that area around Ottawa in small businesses,
00:11:10.640 giving them the first dollars that they had really earned,
00:11:12.920 substantial amount of dollars they had earned in, like, a year and a half.
00:11:15.960 They actually saved some businesses.
00:11:17.800 Businesses were speaking out about they were quickly attacked by activists,
00:11:20.840 but they spoke out saying that this was actually really good for us.
00:11:24.100 The liberals, and this really demonstrates how they rule,
00:11:27.620 that they were willing to call in the Emergencies Act.
00:11:30.420 They were willing to use emergency powers because they felt bad.
00:11:34.220 These people are too, these people have a tyrannical personality to themselves,
00:11:38.260 that if anything offends them, if anything gets on their nerves slightly,
00:11:41.800 emergency powers, authoritarian government steps in in order to make sure
00:11:46.680 that they never have to have their feelings hurt.
00:11:49.040 They never have to have any of their decisions challenged
00:11:51.040 to ruin people's lives with terrible regulations and legislation.
00:11:54.960 Horrible.
00:11:55.560 These people should, I hope that they lose on the appeal.
00:11:58.460 Even if they win, I don't think it makes a difference.
00:12:00.160 The fact that they are even still fighting this shows that they're just not a serious government
00:12:05.140 and that they're just trying to, I don't know, shore up their reputations, I guess,
00:12:10.440 that they're trying to fight back against the now court-approved narrative
00:12:14.920 that they had acted in an authoritarian fashion.
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