Posted on 02/15/2022 3:24:40 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau finally did it. He did what all liberals want to do in the COVID era – use state power to crush those with whom they disagree. It's not enough to just accept people with differing opinions. They must go.
The Canadian Freedom Convoy has been going strong for days. They set up shop in Ottawa. They were on the Ambassador Bridge before police cleared them out during the Super Bowl. Trudeau simply could just roll back all the COVID mandates since no one cares about them. No one is following them. The pandemic is over. We have therapeutics. We have vaccines. It's a virus with a 99-plus percent survival rate. End the madness. Instead, he's declared war on his own people, enacting the Emergencies Act. Have no fear; the military won't be used. Yeah, one Canadian lawyer saw right through this ruse.
It's the 21st Century. State power and its abuse doesn't have to look like Tiananmen Square anymore. It doesn't have to be tanks rolling in anymore. Instead, it's a digital tank in the form of the government taking all of your stuff. Yes, the Trudeau government announced that this act allows them to seize people's assets without a warrant.
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This is probably an opportune time for him to demand he be
appointed for life also.
Every dickater does it sooner or later.
Let’s go Brandeau.
LOL
Obviously Canadians should store their assets in portable precious metals.
Lead and brass come to mind.
Their Parliament is good with this seizure of the government by Castro’s kid?
And we all know the solution but few will discuss it.
Fidel Trudeau has demonstrated just how easy for some braindead pol to usurp freedoms so easily. When the Canadians gave up their guns, they opened the door to become Venezuela.
John Brunner predicted this in his novel “Shockwave Rider”, about 50 years ago. What took them so long?
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Slow readers? limited attention span? Both?
PING!
Canada’s trannie PM, Justine Castreau Trudeau, appears to be gripped by an incurable case of end stage nihilism. His mindless antics will be curtailed and he will seek asylum in Cuba.
It will get one an FR timeout.
I speak from experience...
Article has a factual error. We do not have any vaccines that have played a part in ending this pandemic. Calling the jabs a ione does not make them vaccines. Even changing the definition of the word vaccine does not make them vaccines...because the change was motivated by deception and not a recognition of an authentic change in the meaning of the word.
Disclaimer: I think that he has over-reached and will face political trouble from even some within his own base of support, as leftists realize that this is not a good precedent to set in case another Stephen Harper comes along and decides to use this to harass leftists and their financial donations to equally disruptive leftist protest movements.
Just some context so the American readers know in more detail what appears to be happening.
The government has these emergency powers (under the legislation) for a limited period of three to seven days, depending on what course the opposition in parliament takes. Even at seven days, Trudeau will soon have to get the ratification of both the House and Senate for these extraordinary measures. It seems rather unlikely that this will happen. Financial institutions may be under pressure to comply for a few days, but if they drag their feet then they may soon get to a place where the government runs out of authority to continue.
That would be good, in a limited way.
It also remains to be seen whether the net is to be cast wide or narrow, in other words, are they going to go after every average citizen who gave small amounts to the freedom convoys, or will they only be trying to establish the identity of major funders? That will have political implications too, if they go after thousands of average citizens it is likely to fuel a firestorm of western separatist activity which has already gained a footing during this pandemic and the lockdowns.
There is a sort of exit ramp available if the government realizes it has blundered, as the two main economic pressure points (Windsor and the Alberta road crossing) have been relieved more or less voluntarily while the convoys re-assess.
The police chief in Ottawa has resigned under mounting political pressure as he appeared to be doing very little to oppose the occupation of downtown Ottawa during that protest. Here again, the future outcome is uncertain with hundreds of protestors digging in but gradually relocating to less populated areas directly around the parliament (you likely have never been to Ottawa, but picture it this way, it’s a series of parallel east-west streets of which the first, Wellington Street, has no residential aspects for at least a mile in either direction from the parliament buildings, along that stretch you find the Bank of Canada and the Supreme Court buildings as well, some large hotels, and eventually residential areas well removed from the protest encampment. ... then further south, more parallel east-west streets with shops and some residential areas; the residential population begins to increase beyond about the fourth of these downtown commercial streets and it is in that area that there has been friction between parked truckers and the local population).
So I can’t really speculate about how this all ends because each province is now moving towards relaxed pandemic responses but not in a unified way, for example we will still have the vaccine passport in place in BC while it’s gone from several other provinces. At some point the convoys may figure they have done all they can and dissolve, whether that takes the heat off them financially or not remains to be seen.
I don’t think any outcome will avoid a political crisis in March here, the government have clearly over-stepped any reasonable limit and this is obvious even to many elitists who are giving very limited and unenthusiastic support if not outright criticizing the measures. There are minefields for the government to cross, including detailed answers to growing concerns about false flag operations mounted by agencies which were either being directed by the PMO (Prime Minister’s office, basically the equivalent of the White House), or at least with his implied sanction. That could prove to be a resignation level crisis if handled appropriately by the Opposition. So could the financial over-reach. It does not sound like the banks are very excited to have policemen on the phone asking for confidential client information. And in Canada, the banks have been very powerful political players in the past. Unlike the USA, we only have a handful of banks here and they are all quite solvent and wealthy (meaning they can buy political support quite easily). They have tended to support the Liberal Party but this may make them more likely to switch support to the Conservatives, which I think would spell the end of Trudeau as his handlers would not like that even slightly.
Also somebody commented that Canadians had “given up their guns.” I don’t think that’s accurate, there are probably plenty of weapons in private hands and there has been no mass confiscation of privately owned weapons in Canada. Our concealed carry laws are different by and large, although that doesn’t seem to stop many people from carrying anyway. Our criminal element alone has more firepower than the armed forces probably have, certainly more than the police.
Priceless!
This is no longer about Covid or what is best medically for the people.
It is about ego.
They are right and everyone else is wrong, and they will force their opinion on everyone,,,, or else.
It is about ego and power.
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