OTTAWA — Cara Zwibel, Director of Fundamental Freedoms for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA), made the following remarks today:
This week we have heard from federal officials but none have been able to back up the claim there was a national emergency as defined by the Emergencies Act.
We have argued from the very beginning there was no national emergency within the meaning of the law. Witnesses have now stated that the government declared an emergency using criteria found outside the confines of the definition of the Emergencies Act. The government’s position seems to be that it
