But this leads to the question if the province is not doing it's job, what do you do as the feds?

Not saying they did right, but curious.

My preference would be that the fed enforce the laws on the books themselves (if they have the power to do so), or pressure the province to do so (using the democratic leverage available).

They tried that for weeks and it didn’t work. So what did you want them to do.

Are there no federal police or laws that are applicable? Is there no federal funding that goes to the province that can be used as leverage?

Those would be my starting place.

There’s no federal police, the government can make their resources available but it’s up to the province to use them or not. And sure, you could use funding, but there’s no guarantee that that would have solved the problem. The province could have kept digging their heels in.

Arent there 30,000 Mounties capable of enforcing the law?

Sure, but like I said the federal government can’t deploy them, only the provinces. And the premier of Ontario is a drug addict nimby conservative that hates trudeau, so he refused to do anything about it.

Interesting, I'm somewhat shocked that the fed has no ability to direct and deploy the Mounties, but I wont argue with a Canadian. That said, I think the democratic solution is to act through ones representatives, impeach the premier, ect.

I also dont see why the emergency act, if declared, couldn't be used to enforce existing laws and remove the truckers.

I think my core point is that there are conventional and broadly accepted methods to take when people are breaking the law. People breaking the law does not provide a blank check to stop them by any means desired.

It’s a whole thing because Quebec threatened to secede in the 80s, so the federal government doesn’t intervene unless provinces ask for it. I’m not sure about the legal basis for it either though hahaha.

And like, I agree with you in general, I just don’t see the action as an abuse of power. The economic intervention was also accompanied by on the ground action, as you said should have happened. At the time there were lots of questions about foreign interference in funding the protest, that’s why their accounts were frozen.

> what do you do as the feds?

I don't know exactly how Federalism works in Canada but the answer is their jobs. If that doesn't entail stepping in to provincial business, they shouldn't do anything.

There doesn't always have to be something done.

This is very easy to say as someone who wasn’t affected by the situation. Most people supported the federal governments decision.

Provinces are absolutely responsible, policing is all on them.