It is refreshing that some countries are seeing the handwriting on the wall, people are fed up and not going to take it anymore, so they are doing the right thing insted of the wrong thing like Turdeau.
Do you think Turdeau might just look around and get the message?
I noticed that even his own side was very quiet as he was heckled and jeered during his speech in Parliament yesterday.
Are his days numbered?
From FL lawyer Jeff Childers’ email today: re Turdeau/Doug Ford:
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☕️ Coffee & Covid ☙ Wednesday, February 16, 2022 ☙
🚛 Newsmax interviewed truckers about how they felt about Trudeau’s calamitous invocation of the Emergencies Act on Monday. Hint: it only made them angrier.
Erik Mueller, a truck driver who quit his job to join the blockade in Ottawa, called the emergency measures insane. “We are not backing off,” he said. “We have too much to lose.”
Wayne Narvey said he took a leap of faith a week ago and drove his 30-year-old motor home from News Brunswick through a snowstorm to get to the capital. “They can take our bank accounts, they can freeze our assets, they can take the insurance off our vehicles,” he said. “They can play all the games they want. We’re not leaving.”
So there.
Canada’s astonishing promotion to the world stage’s new headquarters of the resistance to medical mandates minted a stunning reversal of opinion — not least my own — about Canadian spinelessness. God Bless those Canadians! The truckers along with every Canadian supporting them. I could hug every single one of them.
Hug a trucker!
🔥 You can’t really look at the situation and draw any conclusion other than that Canada’s shiftless and incompetent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is losing, badly.
Who knows what that man is thinking? He must have thought invoking the Emergencies Act two days ago would help somehow, teach those truckers a lesson, defuse the conflict.
It’s not helping, teaching, or defusing.
So far, five of Canada’s eleven provinces — their states — have rejected the Emergencies Act, which appears to require ratification in each province. Canada’s provinces have “premiers,” which are like our governors; they are the top political executive for each province.
Saskatchewan’s Premier Scott Moe said the Emergencies Act isn’t needed in that province. “Saskatchewan does not support the Trudeau government invoking the Emergencies Act,” Moe tweeted Monday. The premiers of Alberta and Manitoba have also said the emergency powers are not needed in their provinces. Quebec Premier François Legault has also come out against the Act being applied in his province.
So much for unity. He’s losing the states. Trudeau is a nincompoop.
🔥 It gets worse! Ottawa’s first black Police Chief resigned yesterday, amid accusations of inaction against the trucker protests that have now paralyzed Canada’s capital for over two weeks. Just last week, Chief Sloly said that he had “absolutely [no]” plans to resign as police chief, telling reporters that he “came here to do a job.” ABSOLUTELY no plans.
“I came here to do a job and I’m going to get that job done all the way through,” Sloly told CTV News last week. “Absolutely committed, have a great team here, great officers, we’ve got great partners in the city. We’re going to get this done.” There’s that word again. He was ABSOLUTELY committed. A week ago.
How times change.
Late Monday, after Trudeau invoked emergency powers, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino called for the police to use the Emergencies Act’s broad authority to crack down on blockades and start towing trucks. “We have given new powers to police, and we need them to do the job now,” he said. It’s always the “safety ministers,” isn’t it?
Twenty-four hours later, already under the gun for failing to stop the honking, Sloly resigned. Weird, huh?
Tell me this: what is going RIGHT for Trudeau?
🔥 And then it got even worse for the Prime Minister, if that’s possible. Ontario is one of Canada’s thirteen provinces; it is the most populous province, with 38.3% of the country’s population, and it’s the province where the capital city of Ottawa lies.
Yesterday, Ontario’s governor (premier) Doug Ford unloaded after a reporter asked him about the Emergencies Act, with a follow-up question about Canada’s vaxpass. I’m going to repeat Ford’s answer verbatim, it was that remarkable. Remember — this is the same governor of the state that includes the trucker-clogged capital city and nearly half of the country’s population.
First — I am not making this up — he said to lay off the unvaccinated, because it makes no difference to infections:
You can go shopping … [and] you don’t know if the person beside you has the shot or not. But we also know that it doesn’t matter if you have one shot or ten shots. You can catch Covid. See, the Prime Minister has triple shots; I know hundreds of people with three shots that caught Covid. We just have to be careful, always make sure we wash our hands, and move forward.
But it’s not just infections. He said it’s really about democracy and freedom and liberty:
And every single person including myself knows people that’re unvaccinated. Sure, there’s the rabble rousers. And then there’s just hard working people that just don’t believe in it. And that’s THEIR CHOICE. This is about — again — a democracy and freedoms and liberties. I hate, as a government, telling anyone what to do.
Why? The governor said it’s about time we got on with our lives, and along the way, he cursed the masks:
We can’t stay in this position forever. We’ve got to learn to live with this and get on with our lives. I bet if I asked every single person in this room do you want these damn masks or do you want them off — they want ‘em off. They want to get back to normal. They want to be able to go out to dinner with their families.
Now, the Prime Minister, whose government sits in Ford’s state, isn’t ready to give in to the truckers, not yet. But read Ford’s next comment and tell me whether you think the GOVERNOR is ready to give in and move on:
We just got to get moving forward and get out of this and protect the jobs. You know, I think a lot of people — probably yourself too — everyone’s done with this. Like, we are DONE with it. Let’s start moving on, and cautiously. We’ve followed the rules. All of us. 90% of us. For over two years. The world’s done with it. So let’s just move forward.
Governor Ford was talking to a reporter, answering his question, but I think he was really talking to the Prime Minister. You can sense his palpable frustration. He seems to be asking Trudeau, just what, exactly, are we waiting for?