OTTAWA – After spending Monday arguing that the Emergencies Act needed to be continued because the convoy-related emergency was still ongoing, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has now revoked the Emergencies Act due to the fact that today is Wednesday, a completely different day.
“The situation is no longer an emergency,” Trudeau said at a news conference to announce the lifting of the Act. “We are confident that existing laws and bylaws are now sufficient to keep people safe. They weren’t on Monday, as I and other members of my party repeatedly stated in the House of Commons, but now they are. Because today isn’t Monday, it’s Wednesday.”
The motion affirming the Liberal government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act passed by a vote of 185 to 151 on Monday, with NDP and Liberal MPs all agreeing that the emergency was both ongoing and unable to be contained without the government exercising extraordinary powers. The situation on the ground in Ottawa and at the border has not changed substantially since Monday, except for the fact that since Monday, Canada has been through Tuesday and is now in Wednesday.
“Monday was a dark day for Canadians,” Trudeau explained. “As I stated at the time, we were under a significant and continuing threat from the convoy, which could return at any time and throw our society into upheaval again. Luckily, that threat has passed because it is no longer Monday, and hopefully never will be again.”
“Order has now been restored, and unlike the fragile, fleeting order that had been restored on Monday, today’s Wednesday order is robust and permanent.”
When asked for comment, Jagmeet Singh agreed that Wednesday was significantly different from Monday in that when Monday started, he and his party hadn’t thrown away a great deal of their credibility supporting the Liberals in something that turned out to be utterly pointless.
