CANADIAN truckers protesting job loss and travel restrictions arising from resistence to Covid vaccine mandates, were bracing themselves to suffer the application of what was once known as the War Measures Act.
As truckers and their rigs occupy streets in the vacinity of the parliament buildings in the Ottawa, the national capital, the movement has spawned similar demonstrations in France and the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand, reports France 24 television.
The Emergencies Act has only been used once in peacetime - by Trudeau's father, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, during the October Crisis of 1970, when it was called the War Measures Act then renamed the Temporary Measures Act, and later changed again to the Emergencies Act in more recent years.
That sent troops to Quebec to restore after the kidnappings by militant separatists of a British trade attache and a Quebec Labour Minister, Pierre Laporte, who was strangled to death in the trunk of a car.The 'Freedom Convoy' started with Canadian truckers protesting against mandatory vaccines to cross the border between Canada and the United States.
In Paris on the weekend, police fired tear gas and issued hundreds of fines in an effort to break up convoys coming from across France.
The Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria have also seen copycat movements, and Belgian authorities said they had intercepted 30 vehicles as police scrambled to stop a convoy of trucks.
Canadian police over the weekend cleared a blockade on the Ambassador Bridge, which handles an estimated 25 per cent of trade with the United States, and had disrupted business in the world
As truckers and their rigs occupy streets in the vacinity of the parliament buildings in the Ottawa, the national capital, the movement has spawned similar demonstrations in France and the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand, reports France 24 television.
The Emergencies Act has only been used once in peacetime - by Trudeau's father, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, during the October Crisis of 1970, when it was called the War Measures Act then renamed the Temporary Measures Act, and later changed again to the Emergencies Act in more recent years.
That sent troops to Quebec to restore after the kidnappings by militant separatists of a British trade attache and a Quebec Labour Minister, Pierre Laporte, who was strangled to death in the trunk of a car.The 'Freedom Convoy' started with Canadian truckers protesting against mandatory vaccines to cross the border between Canada and the United States.
In Paris on the weekend, police fired tear gas and issued hundreds of fines in an effort to break up convoys coming from across France.
The Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria have also seen copycat movements, and Belgian authorities said they had intercepted 30 vehicles as police scrambled to stop a convoy of trucks.
Canadian police over the weekend cleared a blockade on the Ambassador Bridge, which handles an estimated 25 per cent of trade with the United States, and had disrupted business in the world
