My Letter to Senator Yussuff

 Dear Senator Yussuff:

This is to urge you to help vote down the government’s invocation of the Emergency Act. It is not necessary to protect the sovereignty or constitutional government of Canada against so far peaceful protests, and the precedent set now will be crippling if not fatal to Canadian democracy. If any future government can declare a state of emergency on a relatively trivial matter, and seize bank accounts and assets without recourse, no organized opposition to government can any longer form.

This could also be true of labour actions. The Emergency Act is in particular a betrayal of the working class.

The Senate is our last best hope to prevent this. Please demonstrate the relevance of the Senate as a chamber of sober second thought. I am sure history will remember you well for it.

Sincerely

Stephen K. Roney