ICYMI: Kenney to launch legal challenge of federal government's use of Emergencies Act
The Alberta government did, however, formally request assistance from the federal government to deal with the Coutts blockade a few days before the prime minister invoked the Emergencies Act.
In a tweet Sunday, McIver confirmed the provincial government sent the letter but clarified it “did not ask the federal government to grant itself unprecedented powers to suspend civil liberties under the Emergencies Act. shortly after RCMP seized weapons, ammunition and body armour, and arrested 13 people near the blockade.
The prime minister added that a convoy from Fort McMurray en route to Ottawa was turned away at the Manitoba border a few days ago “based on the laws and the powers in the Emergencies Act.”
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