PART ONE: The Political Maneuvering Barry W. Bussey On a cold April day in 1982, her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II gave her Royal Assent to the Constitution Act 1982, entrenching the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This marked the end of a career-long aspiration...
The Canadian Prime Minister and The Case for An Immediate Reduction of Power Many Canadians still feel shaken by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act. “I’m still not over it!” a friend expressed to me the other day. “I cannot believe...
February 14, 2022: according to the Prime Minister of Canada, public order was under threat. A national emergency had to be declared because protestors with unacceptable views had “occupied” the city of Ottawa. So menacing were the truckers, with their bouncy castles...
Barry W. Bussey Prime Minister Trudeau’s invoking of the Emergencies Act was a mistake. Canadian history will come to know February 14, 2022, as a day of national infamy. The Emergencies Act states that a national emergency is an “urgent and critical situation of a...
In January 2020, as information began to emerge regarding the novel coronavirus, many experts and public voices (at least those quoted in media articles at the time) appeared to be skeptical of China’s dictatorial response to the new respiratory illness. One CTV...
Barry W. Bussey When Prime Minister Pierre E. Trudeau was questioned by a reporter as to how far he would go with the War Measures Act in 1970, he retorted, “Just watch me!” Canada was in a full-blown terrorist crisis brought on by the Front de libération du...
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