Fact Check: Canada DID Invoke Emergencies Act For 1st Time -- But It Is Update Of War Measures Act, Last Invoked in 1970
Did Canada invoke its Emergencies Act for the first time ever? Yes, that's true, but Canada has had a similar law in place since Parliament adopted the War Measures Act in August 1914, shortly after the beginning of World War I. The War Measures Act was last used by then-Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau in 1970 during the October Crisis,…