HOW dangerous in terms of threatening fundamental democratic freedoms is Justin Trudeau’s invocation of emergency powers against the Canadian truckers? Deeply disturbing scenes of police aggression in Ottawa over the weekend, accompanied by unprecedented raids on the personal bank accounts of protesters, make it clear that this is descending to very sinister levels of government by diktat. Trudeau, of course, claims to be a right-on, tolerant liberal and environmentalist. He believes everything he does is unquestionably in the national interest, even though in the last election he secured only 21 per cent of the national vote. He and his supporters...