Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses for being here and for sharing your insights with us on this important study on civic resilience and the state of it in Canada today.
Mr. Dehaas, I'll start with you. Your organization is involved with public interest litigation. You've commented on the litigation around the invocation of the Emergencies Act a couple of years ago. I think the trial court and the Federal Court of Appeal have both ruled that the invocation was done improperly and that it wasn't justified. It's now off to the Supreme Court of Canada, so I don't know how much you can comment on it.
My question is focused on what this has done to a Canadian sense of civic resilience, which is what we're talking about. I'm not talking about the mischief-makers, the people who were honking their horns and really making a nuisance, but about law-abiding citizens, the people who supported the truckers. For example, they may have donated money on the GoFundMe page. I had phone calls from some of them—good Canadian citizens, some of them good friends of mine—who said they were worried that the government was going to freeze their bank accounts. They wondered what they should do.
Perhaps you could comment on this. What does it do to a sense of civic resilience when a people's government turns on them in such an aggressive manner?