Thu Feb 24, 2022 – 5:28 pm EST
EDMONTON, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) – Alberta Premier Jason Kenney promised his government will seek a judicial review of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “abuse of power” through the Emergencies Act (EA) despite it being revoked yesterday.
“There never was an emergency that required these extra judicial powers. What a humiliation for those who were defending the indefensible five minutes ago. Alberta intends to proceed with an application for judicial review of the EA invocation to address this abuse of power,” Kenney tweeted yesterday.
“Those whose rights have been violated, and provinces whose jurisdiction has been violated without justification must have their day in Court. The judiciary must be asked to establish limits on such arbitrary use of extraordinary police powers for the future.”
On Wednesday, Trudeau announced that he was ending the EA, saying “the situation is no longer an emergency.”
Yesterday, in the Alberta Legislature, a motion was introduced to “condemn” the “unnecessary invocation of the Emergencies Act by the Government of Canada,” which is “an unnecessary intrusion into provincial jurisdiction under the Constitution of Canada.”
This past Sunday, Kenney said that Alberta would launch a court challenge against the federal government
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