Over the past few weeks many Canadians have been watching the Inquiry on the use of the Emergencies Act, to remove the trucks from Ottawa, and the various border crossings.
What Canadians should have concern, regarding this use of this Act, is the laissez-faire attitude with which it was implemented. If the government feels that the events, which were taking place in Ottawa, etc., warranted War-time measures, this philosophy/standard can be used at any time against any Canadians. All Canadians should be thinking about that.
The other issue is, had these measures been used during the September 11, 2001 attacks, and weren’t – the bar had been set. We did not use our War Measures section of the Emergencies Act during these events. And yet, 9/11 was the first time NATO had used Article 5. We must, also, not forget the FLQ/October Crisis.
