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Trudeau gov’t hits back at trucker protests by announcing plans for even harsher COVID mandates. ( Canada )
LifeSite News ^ | Feb 1, 2022 | David McLoone

Posted on 02/02/2022 8:17:50 PM PST by george76

We actually campaigned on vaccines and vaccine mandates ... there is ongoing work' to integrate an interprovincial COVID inoculation requirement, Transport Minister Omar Alghabra said.

OTTAWA, Ontario — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has pushed back against huge protests fighting expanding COVID jab mandates across the country, indicating that it will not only not back down on the restrictive measures, but will implement an additional inoculation requirement for truckers moving between provinces.

Canadian Transport Minister Omar Alghabra told CBC’s Rosemary Barton that an interprovincial COVID shot mandate is being considered by the government, citing the party’s election campaign promise of “vaccines and vaccine mandates” during the fall.

“In the last election we actually campaigned on vaccines and vaccine mandates. Minister [Seamus] O’Regan just last December announced that we are working on regulating all federally regulated sectors requiring [a] vaccine. So there is ongoing work,” Alghabra said in the interview.

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“As of right now, that policy is not in place,” the minister continued, “but no one should be surprised that there is work happening to get us there.”

The announcement comes on the heels of Trudeau smearing the Freedom Convoy and its many thousands of supporters as “Nazis” and “racists” who are full of “intolerance and hate,” a message he delivered while in hiding outside of Ottawa during the weekend’s protest in the nation’s capital.

Trudeau also maligned the demonstrators as “violent.” However, numerous video testimonies from police on the ground in Ottawa, as well as extensive drone footage of the area, attest to the peaceable nature of the gathering. As things stand, no arrests or injuries have been reported at the protest convoy.

Indeed, protestors challenged a sole man who was carrying a Confederate flag amid the protest ù an image used in the media to stoke allegations of racism — and suspected him of being an agent provocateur.

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The man, whose face was completely covered, later left the scene after attention was drawn to him.

While truckers have been protesting the punishing quarantine requirement for remaining un-jabbed, the country is suffering a shortage of drivers as a result of the mandate, according to haulers.

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Robert Penner, the CEO of Winnipeg-based Bison Transport, one of Canada’s largest trucking firms, said his company alone has already lost nearly ten percent of its cross-border drivers due to the trucker jab mandate, which went into effect on January 15.

Penner noted that “without question” the COVID jab mandate for truckers has created “challenges for our industry,” noting that it will “drive up costs on all goods originating from or destined to the United States,” as reported in the Globe & Mail.

A consequence of the driver shortage will be that the already “fractured supply chain” will face further damage, president of the Private Motor Truck Council of Canada Mark Millian warned.

Trudeau pushed back against claims of a weakened supply chain, criticizing the opposition Conservative Party for what he described as “fearmongering to Canadians about the supply chain, but the reality is that vaccination is how we’re going to get through this.”

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney acknowledged that the country is facing a supply chain issue which only stands to be worsened by the restrictive mandate imposed on truckers.

“The decision to require unvaccinated truckers to quarantine after they cross the border has basically taken thousands of long-haul truckers out of the cross-border transportation logistics system,” Kenney lamented. As a result, he requested the federal governments of both Canada and the U.S. to “simply exercise a bit of common sense here and to extend an exemption for unvaccinated cross-border truckers.”

“This policy I don’t think makes any compelling public-health sense, but it will worsen what we know is a growing supply chain issue,” he stated. “This is turning into a crisis.”

As political tensions intensify, Trudeau has taken the time to tweet about so-called “black history month,” drawing the ridicule of Canadian superstar professor Jordan Peterson, who called the prime minister a “virtue signalling coward.”


TOPICS: Canada; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: noiseman

“ This demented weasel actually thinks he’s in charge. Time for the people who literally produce and deliver everything that keeps him alive to show him who is really in charge.”
Refuse to deliver goods into the Canadian capitol and watch them change their tune.


41 posted on 02/02/2022 9:34:14 PM PST by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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To: Fai Mao

So, let’s see. Unvaxxed truckers crossing the US/Canada border must quarantine for what? 10-14 days. And if the provincial restrictions are put in place all unvaxxed truckers crossing provincial borders to deliver goods will also have to quarantine for 10-14 days.

The supply chain will not be affected, (according to the government officials). This is really an alternate reality. Any requirement to quarantine will mean less drivers delivering goods on any given day. Less goods delivered means less food etc in the stores or goods in the factories to make the products needed.

I highly doubt the Canadian public will buy this for any length of time.


42 posted on 02/02/2022 9:36:28 PM PST by usnavy_cop_retired (Retiree in the P.I. living as a legal immigrant)
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To: Prole
"It would be good to see that Satanic POS meet the same fate as Ceaucescu once it’s all over."

He's trying real hard to emulate Nicolai.

43 posted on 02/02/2022 9:38:22 PM PST by matthew fuller (Resist this coercion like it’s slavery. It is. Kevin Homer, MD)
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To: indthkr; M Kehoe

“Australia and Canada - what happens when white liberals run things.”

CORRECTION: Australia and Canada and the USA - what happens when white liberals run things.


44 posted on 02/02/2022 10:11:17 PM PST by flaglady47 (Donald J.Trump, President in 2024 - DeSantis for VP (or Senior Advisor)til)
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To: george76

Trucks not rolling product will show up in a reduced GDP. The Left are an arrogant bubble of fools.

The economy is not going to make reelection possible.


45 posted on 02/02/2022 10:23:25 PM PST by Jumper
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

That’s government for you, if your doing something REALLY STUPID and the people don’t like it, DOUBLE DOWN!


46 posted on 02/02/2022 10:25:25 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: indthkr

“what happens when white liberals run things”

Authoritarians come in all colors, leave the racist bullshit at the door.


47 posted on 02/03/2022 12:53:04 AM PST by PTBAA
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To: ConservativeInPA

If they didn’t shutter DC after the taxes on diesel made it more expensive thab gas, they aren’t gluing to. The cost of DEF.. the operating costs have driven out independents. Trucking has been end around nationalized, just like healthcare.


48 posted on 02/03/2022 1:14:11 AM PST by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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To: george76

Hopefully, there’s an upside, in which Canadians will have had enough, and Parliament will call for a vote and get rid of Trudeau.


49 posted on 02/03/2022 1:16:47 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Is this the babylon bee?


50 posted on 02/03/2022 1:35:27 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: george76

They continue to do the exactly wrong thing.


51 posted on 02/03/2022 2:07:51 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: RAldrich

If he keeps pushing around the Canadian citizens like this he could wind up sharing the same fate as them as well. I pray it never gets to that level.


52 posted on 02/03/2022 3:10:39 AM PST by Perhaps Today
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To: george76

As of right now, that policy is not in place,” the minister continued, “but no one should be surprised that there is work happening to get us there.”

they know not what they do, stupid little nazis


53 posted on 02/03/2022 3:13:35 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: george76
1 Kings 12:13 The king answered the people harshly. Rejecting the advice given him by the elders, 14 he followed the advice of the young men and said, “My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.”

It didn't work out to well for Rehoboam.

54 posted on 02/03/2022 3:30:09 AM PST by tnlibertarian
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To: george76

Wait until this starts to have an effect on supply chain, (like right now) already high lumber prices are going to soar in the US.


55 posted on 02/03/2022 4:25:52 AM PST by databoss
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To: george76

Trudeau must get his cues from Biden.


56 posted on 02/03/2022 5:35:01 AM PST by oldtech
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To: 5th MEB

Perfectly said!


57 posted on 02/03/2022 6:24:22 AM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (The 2020 election Trump victory determines the fate f America and Freedom.)
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To: nikos1121

These days its hard to tell at first!


58 posted on 02/03/2022 6:25:14 AM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (The 2020 election Trump victory determines the fate f America and Freedom.)
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To: usnavy_cop_retired

You want your celery & tomatoes to sit for 14 days-—also in quarantine???


59 posted on 02/03/2022 8:20:48 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: McCarthysGhost
"I will stop the motor of the world."

John Galt from ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand

60 posted on 02/03/2022 10:53:25 AM PST by Sons of Union Vets (Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory!)
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