Canada 'actually' invoked Emergency, quips MEA

New Delhi, February 17

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) today noted that Canada had to “actually” invoke the Emergency Act to deal with the truckers’ blockade of key arteries and cities over Covid vaccine mandate and other restrictions.

The ministry’s tongue-in-cheek observation at the media briefing here on Thursday capped a massive panning on social media of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who had delivered homilies to the Indian Government on dealing with farmers’ protesters last year. Trudeau’s ministers too had made observations when there were clashes with the police when the farmers were on their way to Delhi’s borders and again after the Red Fort violence. The Canada’s Emergencies Act empowers the Central Government to override civil rights, restrict trade, and ban public associations. —