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Trudeau Backs Down, Revokes Emergencies Act: He got tipped that he wasn’t going to get it past the Canadian Senate
Red State ^ | 02/23/2022 | Nick Arama

Posted on 02/23/2022 6:28:07 PM PST by SeekAndFind

It looks like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau just blinked big time in his fight with the Freedom Convoy over COVID mandates.

Trudeau is now backing down and has revoked the Emergencies Act that he called on Feb. 14, and that he just asked the House of Commons to pass on Monday. As we reported earlier, he needed approval from the nation’s Senate and it looked like a lot of the senators had big questions about passing it. I’m thinking it means that he got tipped that he wasn’t going to get it past the Senate, so it was better to revoke it rather than be embarrassed when they shot it down.

As we also noted , he was getting a lot of criticism from around the world, such as from the Romanian member of the European Parliament Cristian Terhes who called him a “tyrant,” and compared him to a Communist dictator.

Trudeau’s polls had also gone straight into the toilet. A poll from four days ago found more Canadians opposed the Act than were for it, and the Conservatives have gained 10 points in polling because they have been against it and for the rights of the protesters.

The Emergencies Act measure included things like freezing people’s bank accounts for the ‘crime’ of donating 20 dollars to the Freedom Convoy, and conscripting tow truck drivers, forcing them to work for the government to clear out the protesters in Ottawa.

BREAKING: Justin Trudeau revokes the Emergencies Act pic.twitter.com/Pzm2cDgwhF

— True North (@TrueNorthCentre) February 23, 2022

Trudeau now said that he no longer thought it was necessary because the standing Ottawa protests have largely been cleared out. But the standing protests had been largely cleared out on Monday, when he was pushing the measure to be passed in the House. “We are confident that existing laws and bylaws are now sufficient to keep people safe,” Trudeau said during a press conference.

As this is breaking news, RedState will provide updates as they become available.


TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: canada; emergenciesact; freedomconvoy; justintrudeau
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1 posted on 02/23/2022 6:28:07 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

No sir, might as well keep it in place sir. You started it, but I don’t think you’re going to be able to finish it. We’ll see.


2 posted on 02/23/2022 6:29:01 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Seems there was a bank run too.


3 posted on 02/23/2022 6:37:55 PM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It was the Bank Run that changed his mind. Youbetcha!


4 posted on 02/23/2022 6:38:31 PM PST by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: SeekAndFind

Justin Castro more accurately


5 posted on 02/23/2022 6:38:43 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Emergencies Act is now a pox on the Canadian banks.

Oops.


6 posted on 02/23/2022 6:41:20 PM PST by READINABLUESTATE ( ‘When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty.’)
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To: SeekAndFind

Those bicameral legislatures are such a bitch aren’t they??

3,000 years of governmental experience in checking power sure comes in handy sometimes!


7 posted on 02/23/2022 6:45:23 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: SeekAndFind

What about the trucks and money they confiscated? And the truckers’ pets?


8 posted on 02/23/2022 6:46:18 PM PST by lurk (u)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Justin Castroeau more accurately.

There, fixed it.

9 posted on 02/23/2022 6:49:17 PM PST by marktwain (Amazing people can read a persons entire personality and character from one photograph.)
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To: marktwain

Nice :)


10 posted on 02/23/2022 6:53:24 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SeekAndFind

11 posted on 02/23/2022 6:53:49 PM PST by xp38
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To: SeekAndFind

Trudoodoo’s Ceausescu Moment!

Now what?

He can always go to Cuba?

Totalitarian Vermin is to forever be reviled.


12 posted on 02/23/2022 6:54:45 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: griswold3
It was the Bank Run that changed his mind.

BUMP!

13 posted on 02/23/2022 6:56:31 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: SeekAndFind

I still find it irritating that not a single world leader has spoken out against what Trudeau did and is doing.
and even more irritated that now a sing leader of an English-speaking country has.

I guess they figure Trudeau will nod wisely when they crack down on protestors.


14 posted on 02/23/2022 6:58:12 PM PST by Tupelo (“Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*ck things up” (Barack Obama))
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To: Tupelo

” and even more irritated that now a sing leader of an English-speaking country has.”

Should read, and even more irritated that not a single leader of an English-speaking country has.

damn old clumsy mind.


15 posted on 02/23/2022 7:01:56 PM PST by Tupelo (“Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*ck things up” (Barack Obama))
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To: Tupelo

Actually the former President of IRAN came out against Trudeau:

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-696881

I feel rather weird when a jihadist is on the same side as I am.


16 posted on 02/23/2022 7:06:54 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: marktwain
Castroeau

MAGA BUMP! Castro AND Ceausescu TOO!

May this MOMENT haunt this arrogant Globalist Prick for the rest of his life.

17 posted on 02/23/2022 7:09:31 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Secret Agent Man

No, Marktwain is Right. Castro and Ceausescu TOO!


18 posted on 02/23/2022 7:10:25 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Don W

It’s pretty bad when Canada acts like you would expect Iran, Turkey, or Russia to act. Trudeau is more a fascist than almost anyone else.


19 posted on 02/23/2022 7:12:14 PM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Justin Trudeau just blinked

Justine: "No, really it was just something in my eye. I'm still a globalist power player Mr.Soros, sir. I really am."

20 posted on 02/23/2022 7:24:23 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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