With the same zeal that the government attacked the truckers, it should put CUPE in trusteeship and decertify it as a bargaining agent

Last week was a busy one in the increasingly intense struggle of sensible Canadians to slough off, cast down, and ultimately trample into threadbare fragments, incinerate, and scatter the ashes, of woke authoritarianism. On the positive side, Federal Judge Richard Mosley’s finding that there was inadequate justification for the imposition of the Emergencies Act against the trans-Canada truckers protest in February 2022, was a stirring resurrection of the official recognition of the liberties of the citizen against the capricious and heavy-handed whims of the state. The judge contradicted Appeal Court Justice Paul Rouleau’s finding in the inquiry that the Emergencies Act requires in the event of its imposition, that conditions created by the actions of the truckers justified the use of the draconian legislation. Justice Mosley wasn’t so declarative on the legality of recourse to the Emergencies Act as he was in his finding that it was unjustified: it did not meet the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service’s definition of a “threat to the security of Canada,” and the government could not just fabricate its own criteria.

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He effectively found that the only aspect of the conduct of the truckers that justified drastic and extraordinary measures was the blockage of the major crossing point on the Canada-United States border at Coutts, Alta. But this was removed by police action with no requirement of a declaration of a national emergency, no violence (though weapons were discovered), and no recourse to such extreme measures as imprisonment or seizure of bank accounts or ”debanking.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced to the media, while the truckers were still far distant from Ottawa but approaching rapidly, that they were homophobes and misogynists, outrageous and irrelevant allegations with no basis in fact. Leaders of governments who wish to be taken........

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