Ottawa trucker protest ruling
The ruling came down yesterday. Unanimous confirmation from the federal court of appeal, affirming the federal court ruling that the invocation of the emergencies act was unreasonable and ultra vires.
Here is the Federal government summary, with links to the ruling.
The summary is sufficient.
I will put out a video on it today. And we will talk about it tomorrow.
The ruling is literally everything I have been saying since day one. With the exception of not declaring freezing of bank accounts abusive. Going to see what rationale there was to not make that determination. But the compulsion of financial institutions to share information with authorities was unreasonable.
Bottom line? Not to sound black-pilled: Too little, too late. People have moved on. People have forgotten. And others will never have their original opinion changed by a federal court ruling four years later.
Also, it will not prevent future government abuse. It just provides the framework for the government to more neatly craft its abuse the next time.
Now they know the justifications to invoke. The words to use. And how to better use the monopoly of violence that the government benefits from.
That, and the people have already been tortured and abused. People have spent excessive amounts of time in jail for no good reason. The harm has been done. This ruling is like applying a Band-Aid to a broken leg after the bone has fused crooked.
Cue the Debbie downer “womp womp” Music.
Oh yeah, and Freeland has already announced the government‘s intention to appeal. I don’t think an appeal will be successful. But to me, at this point, the justice rendered in this ruling feels illusiory.
https://www.fca-caf.ca/en/pages/decisions/plain-language-decision-summaries/2026-fca-6