Thank you for your question.
Anyone can say that things are charter-proof. I've written extensively about how the charter sets only minimal standards, but there were many aspects of the emergency order, not only the financial aspects, that I think could be charter-suspect. Being able to seize or freeze assets without any discernible due process is something that could be vulnerable. There is also the use of the “breach of the peace” concept in the second part of the regulation, but we actually don't have an offence of breach of the peace, and it is vague. So I would not be willing to write a clean bill of health, with respect to the charter, for either the financial or the protest-related measures.
Similarly, the definition of interfering with trade as an offence is staggeringly broad. I think it's important that we apply the charter standards, but the fact is, that's never going to happen before a court, and just because the government says something is consistent with the charter, that doesn't mean it is.