Last week, the Canadian government invoked the Emergencies Act to break up the Freedom Convoy protests. Officials had accused the protesters—long-haul truckers and citizens gathered in Ottawa to peacefully oppose vaccine mandates—of being Nazis. The Emergencies Act gave the government cover to act without court approval and in defiance of constitutional rights. During the past week, the government used illegally obtained data and a media doxxing campaign to hunt down those who joined or supported the protests, and freeze their assets. The government planned the institutional unpersoning of civil dissidents, their supporters, and their families. Nevertheless, international media and leftist civil liberty organizations sympathetic to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau were skeptical. The situation did not meet the threshold needed to justify invoking the Act. On Wednesday, the government abruptly changed course and ended the state of emergency.