{"id":61985,"date":"2022-02-23T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T21:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61985"},"modified":"2022-02-23T16:00:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T21:00:43","slug":"trudeaus-references-to-misinformation-when-justifying-his-emergencies-act-are-very-troubling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61985","title":{"rendered":"Trudeau\u2019s References to \u2018Misinformation\u2019 When Justifying His Emergencies Act Are Very Troubling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rises during Question Period in Ottawa on Feb. 15, 2022. (The Canadian Press\/Adrian Wyld)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Trudeau\u2019s References to \u2018Misinformation\u2019 When Justifying His Emergencies Act Are Very Troubling<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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With the parliament now formally invoking the\u00a0Emergencies Act<\/a>, many civil freedoms can be suspended in the name of dealing with our current emergency, whatever that may be.<\/p>\n

The right to peaceful assembly and association has been suspended as gatherings are banned in certain areas. Property rights are being suspended as supporters of the Freedom Convoy are having their bank accounts seized and vehicles impounded. Rights pertaining to the security of the person have been suspended as police can force labour from people, such as tow truck drivers, upon threat of imprisonment.<\/p>\n

As if the suspension of all the aforementioned rights wasn\u2019t enough, in listening to Prime Minister Trudeau, it sounds like his government may want to infringe upon our rights even further under the dubious justification of quelling a protest crisis in Ottawa.<\/p>\n

The Trudeau government may go after our rights to free speech, expression, and press.<\/p>\n

During a press conference just prior to the parliamentary vote on the Emergencies Act, Trudeau expressed at length the reasons he felt invoking the Act was justified. Trudeau mentioned what he called \u201cmisinformation<\/a> and disinformation\u201d multiple times during the presser. What is in the Act that could be used to battle apparent misinformation if indeed such misinformation was part of why the Act was needed?<\/p>\n

Nothing in the Emergencies Act itself refers to misinformation but it does give the government some strong powers that are open to some pretty broad interpretation. The government can now force Canadian banks to seize the assets of citizens without a court order. With no judicial oversight required, the government doesn\u2019t need to justify to anybody why a citizen\u2019s bank accounts should be seized. They need only order it.<\/p>\n

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rises during Question Period in Ottawa on Feb. 15, 2022. (The Canadian Press\/Adrian Wyld) Trudeau\u2019s References to \u2018Misinformation\u2019 When Justifying His Emergencies Act Are Very Troubling With the parliament now formally invoking the\u00a0Emergencies Act, many civil freedoms can be suspended in the name of dealing with our current emergency, whatever that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[103,32679,32680,379,4169,1426,16350],"class_list":["post-61985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-canada","tag-cory-morgan","tag-emergency-measure-act","tag-government","tag-justin-trudeau","tag-misinformation","tag-the-epoch-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61986,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61985\/revisions\/61986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}