More calls for changes after Emergencies Act ruling on convoys

Police move in to clear downtown Ottawa of protesters after weeks of demonstrations on Feb. 19, 2022. (Cole Burston/The Canadian Press)A lawyer representing Ottawa residents and businesses in a class-action lawsuit against organizers of that city's 2022 convoy protest says he isn't surprised by a federal court decision that use of the Emergencies Act to help end it was unreasonable — in fact, he agrees with it. "Invoking the Emergencies Act is something that should be done very rarely, if ever,"