Unjustified

The Freedom Convoy, The Emergencies Act, And The Inquiry That Got It Wrong

Ray McGinnis

• Publisher: Sutherland House
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9781998365036
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

In January 2022, protesters travelled to Ottawa seeking to debate the Canadian government's pandemic measures that had caused widespread bankruptcies, suicides, domestic abuse, addictions, and overdoses. They challenged the alarmist depiction of the virus as a clear and present danger to all. Media and politicians smeared the protesters as insurrectionists, homophobes, Nazis, anti-vaxxers, and arsonists. But was any of this true?

In Unjustified, Ray McGinnis examines testimony at the PublicOrder Emergency Commission that confirms the protesters were never dangerous as depicted. He chronicles court cases unfolding since the protests that raise questions about our judicial system, and details a recent federal court ruling that concluded the Emergencies Act invocation was unconstitutional and illegal. Unjustified is a call to readers to revisit assumptions about what happened at the Freedom Convoy. McGinnis invites us to question who benefits when media narratives are scaring us to death, and what is the cost to our democracy?

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword by Rodney Palmer
• Introduction
• CHAPTER ONE: Protest or Insurrection?
• CHAPTER TWO: What Sparked the Protest?
• CHAPTER THREE: The Official Story
• CHAPTER FOUR: A Growing Counter-Narrative
• CHAPTER FIVE: Comments Made by Public Figures, Media, Not Premised in Fact
• CHAPTER SIX: Agreement Between the City of Ottawa and Protesters
• CHAPTER SEVEN: Emergencies Act Threshold for “Threat to National Security”
• CHAPTER EIGHT: Expanding the Definition of Threat
• CHAPTER NINE: “A Meaning Can Have Different Meanings at the End”
• CHAPTER TEN: Vaccine Mandates and Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
• CHAPTER ELEVEN: Did the Liberal Cabinet Break the Law?
• CHAPTER TWELVE: Safe and Effective
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Freezing Bank Accounts
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Report
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Judicial Review of Invocation
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Fate of Democracy
• CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Would I Lie To You?
• CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: A View of the Protesters
• CHAPTER NINETEEN: Guilty Until Proven Innocent
• CHAPTER TWENTY: A Note on Tamara Lich and Chris Barber Trial
• Conclusion
• Afterword
• Acknowledgments
• A Note About the Author
• Notes