MPs have been flooded with thousands of protest emails in the lead-up to this evening’s vote on the Emergencies Act. “Just today we received 1,300 emails and 600 the day before,” said Liberal MP John McKay (Scarborough-Guildwood, Ont.), chair of the Commons defence committee: “When the conversation starts with, ‘I have never voted for you and I never will,’ we know we are off to a bad start.”