The federal government considers that the several-week siege of Ottawa justified the use of the Emergency Measures Act. (Archive photo)
L'Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) had also argued before courts, in April 2023, that the federal government had acted unreasonably and unjustifiably in invoking the Emergency Measures Act.
The CCLA lawyers then asserted that the demonstration had in no way represented a threat to national security, as the government maintained within the meaning of the definition retained in the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act.
Failing to obtain a quashing of the judgment, the Attorney General wants the Federal Court of Appeal to send the dispute back to the lower court for a new judgment with such directions as the Court deems appropriate.
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