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OTTAWA (Reuters) -The Canadian government will appeal a court ruling that Ottawa’s use of emergency powers in early 2022 to end anti-government protests was unreasonable, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Tuesday. A federal judge earlier on Tuesday said the Liberal government’s use of the Emergencies Act to clear the “Freedom Convoy” demonstrations that paralyzed the national capital in 2022 was unreasonable and violated Charter rights. “I conclude that there was no national emergency justifying the invocation of the Emergencies Act and the decision to do so was therefore unreasonable…