Federal government facing lawsuit over 2022 invocation of Emergencies Act

By Ian Burns (February 28, 2024, 12:34 PM EST) -- The federal government is facing a lawsuit over its use of the Emergencies Act to deal with the protests which disrupted Ottawa and numerous border crossings as part of the Freedom Convoy in early 2022, a move which comes hot on the heels of a Federal Court of Canada ruling which said the government acted unreasonably and illegally when it invoked the Act....