Unbelievably Silly Things: The Prime Minister and the Emergencies Act
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...
Time to Speak Against the Infamy of Our Age
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...
Is Freedom Irresponsible?
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...
A Free Canada in Peril
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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