Posted on 02/18/2022 6:27:56 AM PST by Kaslin
OTTOWA -- The heavy police presence remains in Ottawa but is not enough to evict the freedom convoy from Canada’s capital. Although several warnings have been issued and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act on Valentine’s Day, the truckers and protesters remain calm with no sign of an emergency – just as they have for the last three weeks.
The truckers who remain on the street are adamant that they will not move. Though, they are concerned that the federal government will use force against them.
Trudeau claims that the Emergencies Act will not violate the Canadian Charter of Rights, a document introduced by his father, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. But, it stigmatizes the truckers essentially as domestic terrorists, authorizes the state to freeze their bank accounts and nullify their vehicle insurance and label their anti-vaccine mandate protest as a criminal act.
Another revelation is that people who donated to the widely-circulated GiveSendGo fund to support the protestors are now at risk of having their bank accounts seized by the state. Canadian Justice Minister David Lametti told CTV News on Wednesday that anybody who supports a “pro-Trump” movement, like the “Freedom Convoy,” should be “worried” about the security of their finances and the government freezing their accounts.
This is happening in one of the world’s most stable democracies and the closest ally of the United States.
The GiveSendGo donor list was hacked apparently by a member of cyber attack group Anonymous and he claims to have worked for the CIA and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
The Canadian media has gone one step further and began calling out citizens on that list and interrogating why they chose to donate money to the convoy. Even Democratic “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has called this most yellow of journalism “unconscionable.”
Trudeau continues to insist that anyone who supports the convoy is a Nazi or domestic terrorist. During the prime minister’s Question Period on Wednesday, he accused a Jewish Conservative Member of Parliament from Toronto of standing “with people who wave Swastikas.”
Melissa Lantsman, a Member of Parliament representing the Conservative Party, immediately rose from her seat in the House of Commons to demand an apology from Trudeau. As the room erupted in chaos at his remarks, the prime minister had already left the room.
The Freedom Convoy organizers continue to host news conferences – by invitation only. Most mainstream media are not included on the list and most truckers will not even speak with reporters from CBC, CTV or Global News, three major television networks in Canada.
I spoke to Eric Mueller, who escaped communist East Germany to become a Canadian citizen. He said that he has been parked in Ottawa since Day 1 of the protest and what he has witnessed has been completely at odds with what Trudeau, senior cabinet ministers, and much of Canada say of the protest when they describe “white supremacists” threatening locals and using violence.
Mueller said the only act of violence he witnessed was “only from the police when they arrested someone who was carrying a jerry can.”
Although he thought Trudeau was anxious to throttle the protesters with the Emergencies Act, he was still shocked when the prime minister acted.
“I said it was unbelievable. Where’s the emergency? When is a legal protest the cause to declare an emergency? Unbelievable.”
Mueller joked that it is unfair to say Trudeau is acting like a dictator because “he is one.”
“The government is supposed to be representing Candians but they are not even listening, they are not even asking, they just mandate stuff, illegal mandates; they do everything on their own, filling their pockets. They;ve completely lost their purpose,” he said.
The trucker said he remains committed to non-violence.
“I hope we can go peacefully out like we came in. I’m not thinking about another option.”
Mueller called Trudeau “the crime minister” but said the truckers could take pride in moving many provinces to end COVID-19 mandates.
The House of Commons bugged out this morning. They’re refusing to sit.
Meanwhile...
Kevin Misener
@Kevin_Misener
More arrests underway in Ottawa as a large number of police stage near the Rideau Centre Mall.
@cmaconthehill
reports a drone is in the air for a bird’s eye view of protest zone. Speakers of both the Senate and House of Commons advise members to stay away from Parliament Hill.
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Cormac Mac Sweeney
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Police in tactical gear on scene #cdnpoli
9:19 AM · Feb 18, 2022
Speaker of the HoC
@HoCSpeaker
The #HoC will not sit today, Friday, February 18. A police operation is expected in the downtown core of Ottawa. Given these exceptional circumstances, and following discussion with all recognized party leadership, the sitting today is cancelled. http://ow.ly/wJg850HYvP6
7:14 AM · Feb 18, 2022
Cowards.
the truckers and protesters remain calm with no sign of an emergency – just as they have for the last three weeks.
Mercedes Stephenson
@MercedesGlobal
The Senate just issued notice the adjournment will continue until Monday Feb 21st and note that the Speaker can extend an adjournment “if it is deemed in the public interest”
8:14 AM · Feb 18, 2022
Eric Mueller is the only trucker who has left the blockade. The govt threatened his whole company that would put 50 truckers out of work so he buckled and left.
Bkmk
The gutless wonders refuse to stick around to watch what they’ve enabled.
Woke this morning and turned on YouTube feeds of Ottawa. To see if the flag of freedom was still waving. Vibes of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812 and our National Anthem.
The government is going to ruin his company anyway. Might as well stick it out.
As Trudeau fa,sell accuses the truckers of violence, a Cafe owner in Ottawa had to c,one down because she was a supporter of the convoy, and was getting death threats and vandalism at her business. She was on this morning and broke down trying to describe the nasty hateful crap,thst people have said and done to her
Yes they will go after him as he’s been on you tube videos right and left. He should have just stayed.
I would love to see several third world countries condemning Trudeau on the floor of the UN, it would be hysterical.
Poor Trudy still trying to identify as a man.
What a useless SOB. He and biden come from the same trash.
Leftists are vicious in every country. Most are really sick people.
Agreed. They are angry bitter people who take their hatred out on those who oppose the hateful unborn human murdering agenda of the left
Dang, post is mangled. Truedeau falsely accused the truckers of violence, and fomented hate agaisnt the truckers and their supporters, and now this Cafe owner had to close down because of threats against her.
The only one committing violence in Canada, and insitgating others to violence, are treudeau and the left
Typical,lying leftist tyrants he and his ilk are
One other trucker left yesterday, a man named Christian; he is Romanian and was very outspoken (he gave an interview to Fox a few days before). He gave no reason for leaving, witnesses said his girlfriend was sobbing, and they left abruptly.
Politicians are hiding so they can’t be called as witnesses at Trudeau’s trial at the World Court
Trudeau thugs have now stated that the truckers pets will be confiscated and after 8 days considered abandoned, meaning they will be killed.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/02/17/ottawa-threatens-to-take-away-animals-of-freedom-convoy-protestors/
Trudeau’s Prohibition on Protests Exempts Refugees, Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities
https://summit.news/2022/02/18/trudeaus-prohibition-on-protests-exempts-refugees-immigrants-and-ethnic-minorities/
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