Posted on 02/14/2022 8:44:55 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has learned that Prime Minister Trudeau "will inform the provinces he will invoke the Emergencies Act to give the government extra powers to deal with the protests across the country. But in a meeting with the Liberal caucus, the PM said there were no plans to deploy the military."
The move follows a meeting Sunday of the federal cabinet and its Incident Response Group (IRG).
Trudeau tweeted late Sunday that the IRG discussed "further actions the government can take to help end the blockades and occupations."
Earlier that day, Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair told CBC's Rosemary Barton Live that the federal government has discussed invoking special emergency powers to deal with ongoing protests in Ottawa.
Blair described the attitude around invoking the Emergencies Act as "appropriate caution" rather than "reticence."
As CBC concludes, the law gives the federal government carte blanche to cope with a crisis, including the ability to enact emergency powers that allow it to prohibit travel within a specified area or remove personal property, while imposing fines or jail time on people contravening new orders.
This is basically the ability to unleash 'selective' martial law on Canadians.
This comes after reports on Sunday, Canadian officials cleared the roadway and arrested "Freedom Convoy" demonstrators who held the line and blocked the busiest U.S.-Canada border crossing for nearly a week. Canadian officials confirmed the bridge reopened earlier Monday morning as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to invoke emergency powers to squash protesters around the country.
Traffic cameras on Ambassador Bridge, which connects Windsor and Canadian automotive plants with Detroit, show increased traffic flows around 0930 ET in both directions, into the US, and into Canada.
"Today, our national economic crisis at the Ambassador Bridge came to an end," declared the mayor of Windsor, Drew Dilkens.
Bridge Camera (Into the US)
Bridge Camera (Into Canada)
While the bridge's reopening has been called a success by the government, demonstrators against medical tyranny disrupted hundreds of millions of trade between both countries. Bloomberg reports the price of the six-day shutdown cost a whopping $13.5 million an hour in traded goods and forced carmakers to shutter or limit production at plants in Ontario and Detroit.
About 500 miles northeast of Windsor, CBS News reports protesters in Ottawa, Canada's capital, continue to "paralyze downtown." The occupation of Ottawa has incited a movement across the country of freedom-loving people creating congestion across highways, metro areas, and border crossings -- all because they're fed up with Trudeau's vaccine mandates and restrictions.
The government is struggling to quell the assembly of freedom-loving people from across the country as Trudeau's government plays Whac-A-Mole" to squash protesters where every they show up.
The latest is in Surrey, British Columbia, where protesters have shuttered a border crossing. Freedom never sleeps as a stretch of Highway 15 remains shut down, preventing traffic from entering the US. Data from geolocation technology company TomTom shows part of the highway is closed.
Various highway traffic cameras (data sourced from the British Columbia government) confirm the closure.
Still ongoing... https://t.co/DSuCNENTfC pic.twitter.com/H6HprRC1Uj — AM730Traffic (@AM730Traffic) February 14, 2022
Twitter is full of pictures and videos from over the weekend of people gathering on and around the highway to voice their opinion against the government's dystopic vaccine mandates and restrictions.
Even as Ambassador Bridge reopens, protesters continue blockade movements across the country at critical chokepoints that could unleash economic pain for the Canadian economy, something the Bank of Canada has called "very distressing."
The revolts have yet to be squashed as it appears Trudeau won't submit to protester demands.
Out comes the iron fist.
No surprise. He inherited that from his father - Fidel.
Oh look, Castro’s bastard has his very own Ermächtigungsgesetz.
That’ll bring the public around to his side for sure.
Indeed, invoking such powers against peaceful protesting citizens rarely works out well for national leaders. In fact it often becomes liberating in some of the most physically discomforting ways.
Praying the LORD will stop these tyrants in their tracks.
Joined by his loony left friends in the NDP party, to ensure that the measure passes through parliament. Hopefully they will have some dissenters.
All Trudeau has to do is to end all the COVID mandates and everything will return to normal. Most of the truckers are jabbed anyway, but Turd-oh is a pawn of the globalists.
It's time to convert this little punk's power from "omni-potent" to "im-potent" ... and it couldn't happen to a "nicer" effeminate-looking, effeminate-sounding and effeminate-acting little b!tch than describes trudeau.
Justin Castro has repression in his blood.
They need a nation-wide strike.
(sorry about being a grammar nazi, but that's some sad writing)
These tyrants don’t care about your silly protest. It does not effect them in any way. They know they will suffer absolutely zero consequences for their actions. It doesn’t matter if millions, heck, tens of millions protest. Defying more just makes their ego swell more. I am afraid the ways to end the tyranny are shrinking in number.
You are quite right. Journalism is dead. I am sure the author would like to see them “squashed”, but to write such is illiterate.
Thanks for saying so…that’s the way I see us too
Thanks for saying so…that’s the way I see us too
Pure Liberal Fascism. The Cabbage Patch Commies of Ottawa are stirred up like a hornets nest. Their smug lives have met the majority of Canada,FREE, sweaty, hairy, happy , hard working men and women from Canada’s transportation frontier.And my goodness the Cabbage Patch is horrified by the sight of Freedom!
And the Cabbage Patch Commie Committees are scared to death.
Now Trudeau has to find a foreign source of destabilization in order to invoke the emergency act, and he will use facts that are untrue to do so… ( donors of money to freedom truckers from around the world that Trudeau has not been able to stop), turn that into a boogie man under the beds of Canadians to instill fear,bend the arms of the Provinces because he controls their purses, and then remove habeas corpus ( arrest with no probable cause that crime was committed, no bail, no right to a hearing) and put the entire nation of Canada under martial law,suspend elections , and suspend Parliament
Trudeau wants this badly. It will allow him to jail his political opponents.Trudeau has scores to settle.
A further violation of the Charter Rights and Freedoms of all Canadians.
Trudeau is creating more than a group of passive protestors here if he invokes the Emergency Measures Act. He is creating millions of Sans Coulottes, and a movement that will result in the complete downfall of the Liberal and NDP parties of Canada.
BRING IT BRANDEAU !
It proves the Freedom Convoy’s point, that Trudeau intends to use the pandemic to remove Charter Rights and Freedoms from Canadians on a permanent basis: Limited Travel and Assembly rights as well as a limitation on Freedom of Speech. Now we will live under a new Mugabe, the new “tough” Trudeau has become a monster.
Its past time to organioze a Non confidence motion in Parliament, dissolve Parliament and call an election, a real election , an informed election.
We need leaders who will assure that whatever they do, it will always be within the generous confines of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Lets get on with it.
I can't imagine this ending well.
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