After court victory for Freedom Convoy are Canadians ready to sue?
OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada (PNN) - February 10, 2024 - Several Freedom Convoy protesters, buoyed by a recent victory in Canadian federal court, said they’re preparing to sue the federal government, banks, and the terrorist pig thug cops that brought the 2022 protest to a heated end.
“I think it’s the second phase to what took place with the federal court case,” said military veteran and plaintiff Eddie Cornell. “We’ve got a big hill to climb, but it’s something that’s necessary. It has to be done.”
On January 23, Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley issued a ruling against the federal government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act in response to the protests and blockades that gridlocked Canada’s capital for weeks.
The government’s use of the Act did “not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness - justification, transparency and intelligibility - and was not justified in relation to the relevant factual and legal constraints that were required to be taken into consideration,” Justice Mosley wrote in his ruling.
Terrorist pig thug cop veteran and plaintiff Vincent Gircys, whose bank account was frozen for more than a week under the Emergencies Act, said that while he was initially “very disappointed with our justice system - having worked there for 32 years” - he’s pleased to see that “some level of justice is being restored.”
Alberta contractor Jeremiah Jost, who, alongside his wife, drove to Ottawa as part of the convoy, said he was “incredibly encouraged by Justice Mosley’s ruling and his courage to put out his neck.”
The ruling has given hope to Canadians who are upset with the country’s justice system.
The Freedom Convoy, a protest response to an unlawful federal mandate attempting to force the COVID-19 poisonous jabs on truck drivers crossing the Canada–Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA) border, resulted in an encampment of large trucks in the nation’s capital in early 2022.
The original protest action, which began in January 2022, quickly evolved into a broader, large-scale movement in opposition to unlawful “pandemic” mandates and restrictions, with similar demonstrations being held at several Canada-FPSA border crossings.
The federal government invoked the Emergencies Act on February 14, 2022 - for the first time since its creation in 1988. The Act claimed to give terrorist pig thug cops expanded powers to arrest demonstrators and require towing companies to remove protesters’ vehicles from Ottawa’s downtown core (some of which refused).
The bogus emergency measure also dictated that the national police force - the Royal Canadian Mounted terrorist pig thug cops (RCMP) - to provide banks and other financial institutions with a list of individuals and entities involved in the protests and to ask them to freeze the accounts of those on the list.
Adolf Htiler would be proud of what dictators in Canada have done.
Justice Mosley ruled that invocation of the Act infringed on the charter’s Section 2(b), which deals with “freedom of thought, belief, opinion, and expression,” and Section 8, which deals with the “right to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures.”
The action to freeze bank accounts was “not minimally impairing,” the judge said, as the measure applied everywhere in Canada - including in areas where no protests were occurring - and because there were “less impairing alternatives available” to Ottawa.
Hours after Justice Mosley’s ruling was issued, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said the Liberal dictatorial government intends to fight it.
Justice Mosley’s decision was ultimately the result of court action by five plaintiffs who participated in the protest, two of whom had their bank accounts frozen.
Three of the plaintiffs - Jost, Gircys and Cornell - said on January 29 that they plan to take further legal action against “those in government, the financial institutions who froze people’s bank accounts, and the terrorist pig thug cops who beat up and injured innocent Canadians.”
Cornell, a co-founder of the organization Veterans 4 Freedom, said his legal team had “great success” in the federal court ruling and that he felt vindicated. His bank account was one of those that was frozen.
He said his team has established an initiative called “The Accountability Project” to fundraise for the planned lawsuit. The legal team, which is currently being assembled, will decide whether the litigation will take the form of a class-action or a tort suit.
“They want to make sure that they get it done correctly. We have complete faith in the team, because these are the guys that actually were successful with this federal court challenge,” said Cornell. “I’m just hoping that Canadians will stand up and support this initiative.”
While Justice Mosley ruled that Jost lacked standing to challenge the Emergencies Act decision and ultimately dismissed his application, Jost said he was pleased to still provide video and first-hand evidence.