Canadian Senator David Wells tweeted a thread confirming what we already thought: Trudeau revoked the Emergencies Act because he knew the Senate would not approve.
The Canadian Senate is not like our Senate. Trudeau appointed 70% of the senators. The senator does not leave until they hit 75, which is the mandatory retirement age. There is a list of ways the government can kick out a senator.
Trudeau appointed Senator Pierre Dalphond, an independent senator affiliated with the Progressive Senate Group, said he would vote against the Emergencies Act:
“I have decided to vote against the motion to authorize the continuation of the state of emergency, out of concern about the lack of judicial oversight in the freezing of assets.“I acknowledge the ordeal inflicted on residents and businesses of downtown Ottawa for over three weeks. Their nightmare has been the result of illegal acts and I thank police services involved for their professionalism in dismantling the illegal occupation and blockades,” read the statement.“Now that the rule of law has been restored in Ottawa and elsewhere in Canada, do we need to continue the application of the Emergencies Act and the related extraordinary powers granted by the Emergency Measures Regulations and the Emergency Economic Measures Order?“The Order was described as the powerful new tool arising from the use of the Emergencies Act. It authorizes seizing financial assets at state instigation without any form of prior judicial authorization. The individuals and organizations targeted do not have the right to receive a copy of the information provided by the RCMP or CSIS to the financial institutions. It does not provide for a mechanism to challenge the allegations, or to force a release of the seizure. The Order is silent about future use of information gathered and provided to financial institutions,” he said.
Delphond found the drafted Emergencies Acts violated “section 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which reads: ‘Everyone has the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure.’”
Senators grilled Marc Gold, the government’s representative in the Senate, before Trudeau pulled the plug on the Emergencies Act.
The senators felt pressured to “rubber stamp” the Emergencies Act despite Trudeau and his patsies withholding information:
Many of them wanted to know on what basis the government decided to invoke the Emergencies Act in the first place. That information has not been made available to Parliament, most notably ongoing investigations and intelligence information.Senator Dennis Glen Patterson, who left the Conservative Senators Group in protest over some members’ support of the so-called Freedom Convoy, said: “there is a certain amount of ‘trust us’ in the government’s justification of these extreme measures.”Senator Patterson, who has since joined the Canadian Senators Group, worried that the joint parliamentary review committee would not have access to the unredacted security information to determine if the enactment of the Act was absolutely necessary.
Conservative Senator Elizabeth Marshall asked Gold, “What exactly happened that the government decided to invoke the act?”
Marshall noted that “it seemed like for three or four weeks, there was nothing, they were just tolerating it.” She also wanted to know why the government was “so late in assessing this monumental threat that they’re talking about.”
Gold insisted that she should not “assume that the government was not aware of the threats, nor is it correct to assume that the government didn’t share its concerns about the threats.”
But Gold, again, said he could not provide details: “What is equally clear, as we all know, and as I stated in response to an earlier question, that I cannot share, and the government cannot share and should not share the intelligence that it may have received that helped inform their decision.”
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