The federal government isn’t sending troops into the streets. It isn’t suspending habeas corpus. For now, the worst part about it invoking the Emergencies Act for the first time in history is how preposterously unnecessary it should have been to set such a disturbing precedent. It has activated legislation specifically designed to make rules “that may not be appropriate in normal times” — as the act’s preamble puts it — even as many Canadian jurisdictions prove themselves perfectly able to deal with the problem at hand. Read More