It's the first time the 1988 Canadian statute has been invoked at that.
This due to the ongoing trucker's protest, which has been angering many, encouraging some, and gathering some support from Americans who are like-minded, but who likely would otherwise get angry if Canadians voiced an opinion on US politics, which they sometimes do, and usually not charitably.
The act gives the government extraordinary powers to address assemblies and the like. It replaced the prior Canadian War Measures Act of 1914.
This protest, at least from an American prospective, has been hard to grasp, but it seems part of a general movement of a certain percentage of the population in the Wester world just having had enough of having their lives disrupted due to COVID 19. The fact that COVID 19 can in fact end lives, and that the protest is concentrated among those who have refused to be vaccinated, doesn't seem to matter to those who are protesting. The entire matter has gotten tied up with general concepts of liberty and freedom, and at this part it's hard to sort out what's what with these matters.
In Canadian terms the protest, much like similar ones in the US, also have an undercurrent of populist and conservative disgust, or distress, about the general directions of their countries. This is harder to sort out, and in the US its highly populist rather than highly conservative. How this sorts out in Canada is not clear.
At any rate, the protest, which came to be concentrated at border crossings, was beginning to have an impact on the economies of Canada and the United States, which is likely why this extraordinary action has been taken.
As of the last press here, which might be hopelessly obsolete, the Canadian government had cleared bridges into the US, but had not cleared the truckers out of Ottowa.
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