“This is about keeping Canadians safe, protecting people’s jobs and restoring confidence in our institutions,” he said. Trudeau told reporters he was invoking the 1988 Emergencies Act because law enforcement needed more help. “I’m kind of shocked to be honest that the government of Canada still actually believes that this meets the definition to even invoke the act,” she told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. His son, facing one of the biggest crises since taking office in 2015, made clear that deploying the military was not in the cards as he tried to end protests sparked by truckers opposing COVID-19 vaccine mandates for cross-border trips.Ĭanada was not facing the kind of public emergency the act had been designed to tackle, said Leah West, a professor and national security expert at Ottawa’s Carleton University.
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Trudeau unveiled a series of tough measures to tackle funding for the protests, including letting banks freeze accounts linked to the protests without a court order, and said federal police will help end the blockades.īut despite the apparent parallels, historians say there are big differences between Trudeau’s announcement and the one his father made in October 1970.įor one, Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau put troops on the streets after a small militant group of Quebec separatists had kidnapped a diplomat and a provincial cabinet minister. OTTAWA (Reuters) – Faced with truckers’ protests popping up across the nation, and hampering cross border trade, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday became the only Canadian leader since his father 50 years ago to declare a state of emergency in peacetime.
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