It’s a rare and beautiful thing to see Canada’s courts strike a blow for individual freedom, but that’s what happened in an Ottawa courthouse last month. In a ringing and powerfully-reasoned decision, the Federal Court of Appeal found the Justin Trudeau government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act during the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests violated the law and the Constitution. Civil rights lawyer Christine Van Geyn, who was in the thick of the nearly four years of litigation the event triggered, explains why the court agreed that Trudeau’s actions constituted a draconian abuse of power – and why its ruling could prove a historic victory for Canadian civil liberties.
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After decades spent pursuing net-zero dreams at great cost to their economies and social fabric, most of the world’s industrialized nations are waking back up.