I sympathize with you experience and it’s unfortunate that so many people in Ottawa were inconvenienced by the protest. As I said in another comment, I actually didn’t support the convoy, I thought the organizers were idiots but I fully support their right to protest, and protests are by nature disruptive and inconvenient.

The reason I keep saying the EA went too far is that they literally used it outside of the strictly defined framework the law lays out, using a legal basis they’re purposely excluding from the commission. They refuse to give their legal justification for how this qualified under the terms of the EA, based on “soliciter-client privilege.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/11/23/federal-ministers-emergencies-act-inquiry/

-”Justice Minister David Lametti repeatedly invoked solicitor-client privilege in his testimony at a public inquiry on Wednesday as he refused to reveal the legal basis for the Liberal government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act earlier this year.”

-“Commission lawyer Gordon Cameron said Lametti’s inability to detail any of the legal grounds on which the government declared the convoy to be a national emergency puts them and others at the inquiry in a “conundrum.”

We can disagree on whether or not personally we think it was justified, but it’s pretty clear legally it was too far since it was used outside of the scope of the law, although that’s up to the commission to ultimately determine. We’re just two people expressing our opinions which is fine, and I’m more than happy to keep debating the merits of it based on our personal perspectives.