The Liberals Need Martial Law

God forbid that the proles rebel:

The Liberal government said it is delaying making any changes to the Emergencies Act recommended by a public inquiry until after a broader review of national security legislation this year.

Public Safety Minister Dominic Leblanc said Wednesday the government is looking to overhaul the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act first, and will consider changes to the Emergencies Act after that.

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“My conclusion was, it would be better not to do a one-off and simply remove for example, or change the definition in the Emergencies Act,” he said.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was the first person to ever invoke the Emergencies Act, in response to the Freedom Convoy protests that descended on Ottawa in February 2022. The government said it needed the sweeping powers to remove protesters from Ottawa’s streets and to freeze bank accounts of people participating in the protest.

The government was mandated to call an inquiry into its use of the act, and inquiry commissioner Justice Paul Rouleau delivered a report in February 2023 calling for major changes to the act. He found the government was justified in invoking the act, but should rewrite the legislation.

Specifically, Rouleau suggested it was time to change the threshold for invoking the act, which referenced the CSIS Act and that legislation’s definition of a “threat to the security of Canada.” That standard was controversial during Rouleau’s commission, because CSIS said it had not concluded that the Ottawa protests had reached the standard of threatening the security of Canada, although the government went ahead anyway regarding on their own interpretation of that standard.

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Rouleau recommended removing the reference to the CSIS Act in the Emergencies Act.

Leblanc said Wednesday that the CSIS Act, which governs the country’s spy agency, is badly out of date and needs to be brought into the modern age.

Rather, you want the leaks to be plugged.