Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will once more face a deeply skeptical and divided Parliament over his decision to invoke the Emergencies Act to address the ongoing trucker protests in Ottawa and at border crossing across Canada.

The government has justified the use of the Emergencies Act by arguing that the blockades are an emergency, and by claiming that those involved have vowed to push back at efforts to clear them with plans that officials believe could include “serious violence” for “a political or ideological objective.”

The prime minister pointed to the dismantling of the Coutts border blockade in southern Alberta earlier this week, where RCMP made 13 arrests and seized a cache of firearms and ammunition from demonstrators, as an example of recent success in dismantling the protests.

Critics have called the move a dangerous and unprecedented overreach of government power and authority.

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