Posted on 02/17/2022 2:39:39 PM PST by Aquamarine
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing tough opposition in Parliament as he battles to maintain his emergency powers in a crackdown on Freedom Convoy protesters.
On Thursday, legislation upholding Trudeau's declaration under the Emergencies Act was presented in Parliament, where Conservative and Bloc Québécois MPs voiced fierce opposition.
However, the left-leaning New Democrats said they would reluctantly support Trudeau's minority Liberal government, virtually ensuring passage of the measure upholding his emergency powers in the House of Commons. Together the two parties hold 184 seats out of 338 in the lower chamber.
Under law, any use of the Emergencies Act must be brought before Parliament within seven days for approval.
Debate began Thursday and will continue, according to the Act, 'without interruption' until the vote is called, which is expected to occur as soon as Friday. Canada's largely ceremonial Senate will also consider the matter on Friday.
As debate raged in Parliament, police poured into downtown Ottawa on Thursday in what truckers feared was a prelude to a crackdown on their protest over vaccine mandates, which has paralyzed the streets of the capital for nearly three weeks.
Ottawa's Interim Police Chief Steve Bell said at a press conference on Thursday that checkpoints are being established to lock down the city's core and prevent additional protesters from joining the demonstration. He said protesters currently camped out at the demonstration are free to leave, and encouraged them to do so.
Addressing the House, Trudeau pleaded with legislators to support his extraordinary powers, which have enabled him to summarily freeze bank accounts and crypto wallets tied to the protests in a bid to cut off funding for the movement.
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Don’t the cops understand they’re taking their own freedom away?
Maybe they should read up on Hitler's Brown Shirts and how that ended. TPTB had them shot once they were done using them to do their dirty work.
As for the Canadian truckers:
THEY ARE PROTESTING THE GOVERNMENT FORCING THEM TO BE INJECTED WITH SOMETHING THAT MAY HARM OR KILL THEM!
Outrageous as that sounds, that is what they are protesting-they merely want the right to not be injected.
For this, hard working truckers have been smeared by the media, and ignored by their POS dictator-who wouldn't even talk to them, yet went right over to burning, looting BLM, in show of support.
And now they're being threatened and bullied by a police while the politicians sit on their a$$e$.
What a freakin outrage.
And the POS tyrant may have ties to Big Pharma?
They should find out if that's true or not.
At least it would explain the bizarre behaviour of the thug in charge (Effing criminal trying to cover up his crime).
Directing my post 82 to All (not all caps yelling at you).
And now we know why Friday's session was cancelled "due to police operations". They didn't want debate while ugly arrests were happening.
I didn't take it that way. It was a good rant.
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