PM Trudeau Set To Invoke Emergencies Act To Deal With Protests

Canada's CBC reports: "CBC News has learned Justin Trudeau will inform the provinces he will invoke the Emergencies Act to give the government extra powers to deal with the protests across the country. But in a meeting with the Liberal caucus, the PM said there were no plans to deploy the military."

• The Emergencies Act, which gives the federal gov't almost-unlimited powers to deal with national crises, has never been invoked before by the Canadian gov't. Its predecessor, the War Measures Act, was most famously invoked by Trudeau's father, then-PM Pierre Trudeau to deal with the 1970 October Crisis in Quebec.
• Comes as protests by anti-vaccine mandate and wider anti-gov't activists continue in the capital, Ottawa. A major blockade on the Ambassador Bridge between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan was removed earlier today. The protestors blockade had proved costly, with the bridge accounting for around one-quarter of all US-Canada goods trade.