I suggest Castro Jr. take the hint before it is too late for him.
Posted on 02/14/2022 5:44:17 PM PST by lightman
OTTAWA—Freedom Convoy organizers say they will continue to protest on Parliament Hill despite the federal government’s declaration of a state of emergency.
“We are not afraid. In fact, every time the government decides to further suspend our civil liberties, our resolve strengthens and the importance of our mission becomes clearer,” organizer Tamara Lich said on Feb. 14 in anticipation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act over the protests demanding an end to COVID-19 mandates.
“We will remain peaceful, but planted on Parliament Hill until the mandates are decisively ended. We recognize that there is a democratic process within which change occurs. We have never stepped outside of that process, nor do we intend to.”
Trudeau is the first prime minister to use the Emergencies Act. The act replaces the War Measures Act, which was last used by Trudeau’s father, then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau, in 1970 during the October Crisis when Quebec separatists kidnapped and killed Quebec cabinet minister Pierre Laporte.
The act gives the state additional powers to deal with the protests and blockades, such as providing legal tools to cut funding to protesters, as well as freezing the corporate accounts of companies whose trucks are used in any blockades and removing their insurance.
The province of Ontario and the city of Ottawa have also declared states of emergency over the protests.
The protests were initiated by truck drivers opposed to COVID-19 vaccination mandates for cross-border travel. As convoys of truckers made their to Ottawa, many supporters joined the movement, which turned into a large-scale protest against all COVID-19 mandates and restrictions. Many protesters who converged into Ottawa on Jan. 29 say they intend to stay in the capital until COVID-19 mandates are lifted.
Separately, protest convoys set up blockades at border crossings in Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba, and British Columbia. The blockade at the Ambassador Bridge connecting Windsor to Detroit, which accounts for hundreds of millions of dollars in trade between Canada and the United States, was cleared over the weekend.
“The Emergencies Act will be used to strengthen and support law enforcement agencies at all levels across the country. This is about keeping Canadians safe, protecting people’s jobs, and restoring confidence in our institutions,” Trudeau said.
“The police will be given more tools to restore order in places where public assemblies can constitute illegal and dangerous activities such as blockades and occupations as seen in Ottawa, Ambassador Bridge, and elsewhere.”
Lich said Canadians “should be surprised” that such “an extreme measure” is being used against peaceful protesters.
“We have countless vulnerable people in our crowd, including children, the elderly, and the disabled, who cannot be met with force by a genuine liberal democracy. The right to peaceful protest is sacrosanct to our nation. If that principle is abandoned, the government will reveal itself as a true tyranny and it will lose all of its credibility,” she said.
Lich said she realizes some people are opposed to the protests, but noted that a democratic society “will always have non-trivial disagreements and righteous dissidents.”
“There are many reasons for us opposing the mandates,” she said. “Some of us have been mistreated by our government, including many of our indigenous communities, who have personally experienced medical malpractice. Some of us simply want bodily autonomy and oppose the mandates on principled grounds. No matter our reasons and opinions, it is how the government responds to its citizens that determines the fate of the country.”
Addressing the prime minister, Lich said, “No matter what you do, we will hold the line.”
“There are no threats that will frighten us.”
Brian Peckford, former premier of Newfoundland who is acting as a spokesperson for the Freedom Convoy, said this is “a very, very strange moment in our history.”
“This is again government overreach. We don’t do these kinds of things in Canada. We engage in dialogue,” Peckford said.
“It’s my understanding that the government of Canada has not reached out once to the truckers since they have arrived in this capital city. I find that very hard to understand, because how can you justify going to a measure like an emergency, measures where a lot of powers can be imposed upon the citizens, when you have not even yourself taken any action to engage.”
I suggest Castro Jr. take the hint before it is too late for him.
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed. It would seem in Canada that consent has been withdrawn.
Trudeau’ father isnt Pierre Trudeau. Its Fidel Castro.
Spread out, isolate, disrupt. Bad advice, general.
Why don’t they all take their trucks, go home and park them?
And the Cabbage Patch Commie Committees are scared to death? They are so massively inconvenienced, while Truckers and nurses have lost all employment because they refused the vax, Ottawas mandarins are sorel;y pished thay cannot meader down Wellington Street for a latte three times a day.
Now Trudeau has to find a foreign source of destabilization in order to invoke the Emergency Measures 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 in extortion because he controls their purses through grant payments, 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 organize 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.
Trudeau's real Emergency is that he is losing the political battle he has waged against ordinary Canadians for the past two and a half years in which he has engaged a permanent socialist reconstruction of Canada. Canada rejects it.
There’s no emergency. It’s ludicrous.
An emergency to open travel between countries due to a protest whose goal is to open travel between countries.
What?
Freedom Convoy 2022 has united Canadians more than ever.
Peace
Unity
Love
Freedom
It’s a mass movement.
People from every province have gone to Ottawa to support it.
They are literally dancing in the streets.
It’s simple
No lockdowns
No Vaxx pass
No mandates
Like the US government, the Canadian government is bringing itself down. Both victims of their own “pandemic.”
Petty tyrant being petty.
As for the blockade in BC, I’ve been stuck in line waiting to cross back into the US in Sumas WA for 4 hours now. Haven’t moved in one hour.
The RCMP and Canadian Customs have closed Pacific Highway a few campers.
FFS.
Because there is safety in numbers.
Because they could be ignored and the shortage blamed on other things
Because as a group they offer a passive threat
Because they discomfort the powers that be.
Because if this devolves into a civil war they’re already mustered.
Which goes to prove its all about tyranny and government control.
They simply DO. NOT. CARE. what the little people think or want. It is not even on their radar.
All they care about is how much power and control they can maintain to live the life they are accustomed to.
That might come this or next week when Parliament has to vote to enact Trudope’s invocation.
He can invoke all he wants, but the people still get a vote and any representative of the people voting against their constituents will no longer be a representative.
Democracy!
Research what US Generals said of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan.
Enlightening indeed!
LOL! Love it. Some of my most favorite cartoons among the hundreds that they made. LOVE IT! :)
As a constitutional monarchy with a parliament comprised of the Sovereign, the Senate and the House of Commons, Canada’s form of government is among the most stable and enduring in the world. With an evolving role that predates Confederation, the governor general acts on behalf of the Sovereign, Canada’s head of State.
The governor general’s responsibilities include carrying out constitutional duties, serving as commander-in-chief, representing Canada at home and abroad, encouraging excellence and bringing Canadians together.
So. as I see it, Elizibeth II herself would have to instruct the GG (Mary Simon) to sack the PM, and dissolve Parlaiment, then call new elections.
For that to happen you need the employee truck drivers to be willing to lose their jobs.
Those you see involved with the Freedom Convoy are mostly small trucking company owners or owner operators.
But…I think Trudope just lit a fuse under millions of Canadians willing to lose their jobs for a couple of weeks until the government realizes they work for us, not the other way around.
It’s also tax time…a tax holiday might also be an option
“Time for the Governor-General to sack the PM, prorogue Parliament and call a new election.”
She’s isolating due to positive Covid test.
You’re right but...No way she would ever do this, any way.
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