Canada: Justin Trudeau invokes emergency powers amid trucker blockades –video

The Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, announced the government would invoke the Emergencies Act as the country goes into a third week of 'illegal and dangerous' blockades.

'We are not preventing the right of people to protest legally,' said Trudeau, adding that the military would not be deployed as part of the measures

• Trudeau invokes rare emergency powers in attempt to quell protests