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Trudeau Revokes Emergency

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So it's known that Prime Minister Trudeau has revoked his declaration of emergency , only a couple of days afer he and other officials strongly implied it would last at least 30 days. The most detailed explanation of the legal background and implications of the declaration I've seen is in the link above. I've seen little other intelligent commentary, especially for the reasons behind the reversal. The explanations I've seen include: The state of emergency needed to be approved by the Canadian senate. Debate there was underway, and it didn't look good. The declration was withdrawn yesterday before the senate voted, and the senate canceled debate without a vote. Canadian banks and financial institutions may have been pleading behind scenes not to be put in a position of policing their clients. The Mounties were arbitrarily telling Canadian banks to freeze accounts, in at least some cases of people who had donated token amounts to the truckers w...