Seriously threatens the ability of the Government of Canada to preserve the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of CanadaР”Р„nd that cannot be effectively dealt with under any other law of Canada.РІР‚Сњ.

Seriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians and is of such proportions or nature as to exceed the capacity or authority of a province to deal with it, or.

The Emergencies Act, which has never been used, defines a national emergency as РІР‚Сљan urgent and critical situation of a temporary nature that: It was replaced by the Emergencies Act in 1988.

The War Measures Act was used a total of three times, with the two other invocations occurring during the First World War and Second World War. The government rounded up 497 separatists and raided the homes of 36,000 more. Trudeau pР“РЃre famously imposed the Emergencies ActРІР‚в„ўs predecessor, the War Powers Act, in 1970 in response to French Canadian terrorist kidnapping a couple of officials, one of whom was later murdered.

Despite all the assertions that Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, who has invoked the Emergencies Act to deal with the threat posed by truckersРІР‚в„ў bounce houses, is the son of Fidel Castro or Ronnie Wood or whomever, it always seemed more probably to me that he is the son of Pierre Trudeau, who was prime minister for about a decade and a half when I was young.

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