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Colby Cosh: On the Emergencies Act, Trudeau's gang simply didn't follow the law

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21.01.2026

They lost their marbles over the 2022 convoy, and resorted disgracefully to rule by executive fiat. The Federal Court of Appeal agrees

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On Friday, a three-judge panel of the Federal Court of Appeal unanimously upheld Judge Richard Mosley’s trial-division finding that the Trudeau government’s 2022 use of Emergencies Act powers was unlawful and unreasonable. There is not much point, I think, in plunging into the legal details of the new ruling. Mosley’s finding, which concluded with an open confession of disappointment in the wisdom of the Trudeau cabinet, seems to have been upheld on every single point that the federal justice department hoped to throw into doubt.

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At times the panel’s treatment of the appeal borders on disbelief at the ludicrousness of the arguments. The Emergencies Act was written very carefully to limit the use of........

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