Coming Up, the Next Episode of that Zany Leadership Family Comedy Show "Like Father, Like Son", Watch Justin Needlessly Invoke Emergencies Act

After first being in isolation, then refusing to engage, then in hiding I don't see how the Liberals thought this was a politically winning strategy. It is unfortunate that Canada has had to endure this reckless behaviour (and others like shutdown Canada, pipeline protests, beheading of statues by mobs, burning churches) while police appear to stand idly by at first. Other than (like a prophesy), perhaps Justin is trying to one-up his father - rack up more debt, further alienate the west over ever worsening energy policy, annoy the US and its leader(s), invoke extreme War Measures/Emergencies act...(the only thing left is to mock the Queen childishly behind her back with a pirouette).

https://nationalpost.com/news/civil-servants-nasa-employees-and-an-american-billionaire-among-donors-leaked-in-givesendgo-hack

"...Section 3 of the Act defines a national emergency as “an urgent and critical situation of a temporary nature that … seriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians and is of such proportions or nature as to exceed the capacity or authority of a province to deal with it.”

If we just look narrowly at that definition do provinces have the authority to deal with the current protests? Yes. Constitutionally they are responsible for enforcing criminal law and maintaining public order. They establish and regulate provincial and municipal police services. They or their municipalities can declare an emergency in their jurisdictions, as Ottawa and Ontario have done. And in dire circumstances — a “riot or disturbance” — they can even requisition armed soldiers for “aid of the civil power” by invoking Part VI of the National Defence Act.

Do provinces have the capacity to deal with the current protests? Yes, but their municipal police services might need help with additional resources such as funding, specialized capabilities like police with public order (i.e. riot control) training and equipment, or simply more constables for routine policing to give their own officers some rest. That help, as we have seen, is already being provided to Ottawa Police by other services — municipal, provincial and even RCMP, without a national emergency declaration, and Windsor police were aided by other forces in clearing the blockade of the Ambassador Bridge over the weekend..."