Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau followed through with his threat to invoke the "Emergency Act" today as the Canadian Trucker Freedom Convoy protests entered its 3rd week and appears to be gaining wide support, not only in Canada, but around the world.
This is an unprecedented move, as the Emergency Act has never been previously invoked since its passage in the 1980s.
It is a temporary measure that gives the government broad powers to suspend civil rights, similar to Martial Law, including the power to restrict travel, enter and seize private property, arrest people, among others.
Even before this announcement today, there have been reports of people being visited in their homes from police who have been monitoring people's speech on Facebook in regards to the protests.
Here is one video.
The Ambassador Bridge connecting Ontario with Michigan was reopened yesterday (Sunday, Feb. 13th), as police reportedly made some arrests in an early morning raid.
It is not clear why it took them so long to open the bridge when there were actually very few protesters there, and the day before, Rebel News reported that protesters had already removed several vehicles to open up a lane for traffic.
Some of the leaders of the Trucker Protests gave a Press Conference earlier in the day where they stated that they were not backing down, and were not afraid of the Canadian Government's scare tactics.
Rebel News reported that several Canadian Provincial Premiers are opposing Trudeau in his invoking of the Emergency Act.
Rebel News has also reported that Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced today that the Canadian Government is also going after the financing of the Trucker Convoy, including crowdfunding platforms and cryptocurencies.
On Friday, the main corporate media outlet in Canada, CBC, published an interview with a "cybersecurity expert" who claimed that "Russian agents" were behind the Trucker protests.
Is this media propaganda designed to create fear in Canada so that if war does break out in the Ukraine they can then orchestrate media blackouts to take more aggressive action against the protesters?