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Canada’s Trudeau Revokes Emergencies Act, Says Existing Laws Sufficient to Handle Protests

Sputnik International

By Evan Craighead

February 23, 2022

The House of Commons, Canada’s lower chamber, passed a motion on Monday in favor of extending the use of special emergency powers invoked last week to quell the ongoing trucker convoy blockade and related COVID-19 vaccine mandate protests around the country. The Senate had only debated the matter.
 
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Wednesday that his government has moved to lift the Emergencies Act, as the “situation is no longer an emergency.”

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