I support many of the protestors’ demands, but also recognize it’s wrong for them to block border crossings and otherwise restrict freedom of movement for others (indeed, unjust restrictions on that right are part of what the truckers’ are supposed to be against!).
Canadian authorities are justified in using force to end the obstruction. But the Emergencies Act still has troubling aspects, including allowing the government to freeze accounts with little due process.
And, for those keeping score, I said much the same thing about the 2020 protests and riots in the US. They too 1) had a mostly just cause 2) involved reprehensible violence by some of those involved and 3) led to dubious uses of emergency powers.
Both the US and Canada would do well to revise their dangerously vague and overbroad emergency statutes. Though the Canadian one invoked by Trudeau is an improvement over the War Measures Act used by his father (PM Pierre Trudeau) to combat violent Quebec nationalists in 1970.