Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's use of that country's Emergencies Act to put down the trucker convoy demonstrations is "very, very dangerous," Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. told the BASED Politics podcast, warning against similar legislation that exists in the United States.

"Statutes that allow presidents or heads of state to invoke emergencies are very, very dangerous," Paul said. "We have the same sort of statutes here, and I have long-time been an opponent of these, emphasizing that we actually have in the United States an Emergency Act that allows the president to shut down the internet."

Trudeau has also received harsh criticism from several Canadian civil liberties groups for invoking the Emergencies Act, which permitted him to halt funding for "Freedom Convoy" truckers, freeze their bank accounts and forcibly stop the protests in Ottawa, Fox News reported.

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association said the demonstrations by the truckers did not meet the standard for Trudeau to have made use of the Emergencies Act, which exists for "the ability of the Government of Canada to preserve the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Canada" and only for actions that "cannot be effectively dealt with under any other law of Canada."

Paul told the BASED Politics podcast that during the Trump administration he had tried and failed to get anti-Trump Democrats and libertarian-leaning Republicans to team up in order to get rid of such emergency power legislation.

“[Sen.] Mike Lee had some reforms that he put forward on the Emergency Act, and it's something we should look at, because these things go on and on," Paul said. "There are some emergencies in the U.S. that have been going on for many, many decades. And the president can just renew them every year. There's no real stopping him."

Paul wrote on Twitter last week, "when Canada became Egypt," it "ruled by emergency edict that allows prohibition of public assembly, travel, and the commandeering of private companies without your day in court."

Paul stressed that Canada's emergency edict allows Trudeau “to do some horrendous things, allows him to stop travel, allows him to detain people without trial. Now we don't know that he's going to do that, but it is very, very worrisome what he might do."

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