The emergencies act is extremely restrictive. The criteria:
>There must be an urgent, critical and temporary situation that “seriously endangers” the lives, health and safety of Canadians, and it must be so significant as to exceed the capacity or authority of the provinces to address it.
A foreign funded group with heavy vehicles invaded and took over downtown Ottawa and international border crossings. The province wasn't interested in dispersing them.
The Emergencies Act definition wouldn't allow you to halt a coup attempt if Ontario could handle it but chose not to. At a certain point you have to analyze things and say that if the law has a massive loophole then the law was poorly drafted.
The emergency act was used after the bridges were clear, to stop a peaceful protest in the nations capital that pissed off the minority government. You can go on YouTube and see endless live video streams of it. At no time were any lives in danger.
“You can’t protest, there’s a government here!” - Ottawa residents
