Trudeau to use emergency powers across Canada

For more than two weeks, hundreds and sometimes thousands of protesters have clogged the streets of Canada’s capital Ottawa

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has decided to invoke emergency powers across all of Canada to quell the protests by demonstrators who have paralysed Ottawa and blocked border crossings in anger over the country’s COVID-19 restrictions, a senior government official said on Monday.

The Prime Minister met virtually with the leaders of Canada’s provinces and planned to address the nation late in the afternoon.

In recent days, Mr. Trudeau rejected calls to use the military but otherwise said “all options are on the table” to end the protests, including invoking the Emergencies Act, which gives the government broad powers to restore order.