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Emergency powers allow the overruling of safe-guards, grace/response-periods and due process. It is not "how they operate", it is explicitly outside the norm, and the emergency powers invoked by Trudeau had never been used before, let alone against non-violent civilians.

> because they had an “emergency” debate

Was it about (seldom used) emergency powers, and what was it in response to? A terror attack?

An "emergency" debate about bad laws isn't the same as "emergency" powers.

> a different hill to climb

The missing context is the context of the thread - that we are talking about the actions of Trudeau actions against the protestors.



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