Trudeau and the Liberals Are Dictators

What a pack of b@$#@rds:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says proposed sweeping new powers to let the government spend money without parliamentary approval are needed because the coronavirus pandemic presents an “exceptional situation.” ...

Those include broad new powers to authorize the federal cabinet to spend money until December 2021, and in some cases without any time limits at all, without having to put their proposals to a vote in the House of Commons.

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Melanie Joly, Canada’s minister of economic development, says the sweeping legislation the Liberals are set to propose on Tuesday is necessary because the parliamentary process is too slow to adapt to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

(Sidebar: say the people who learned nothing from the SARS epidemic, did not restrict flights nor the border but love the idea of never letting a crisis go to waste.)

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As first reported by Global News, the emergency bill being voted on Tuesday isn’t just about spending a specific amount of money to fund the fight against COVID-19, it actually gives the power to spend any amount needed and to change tax rates up or down without asking Parliament for approval.

It gives that power to the finance minister for almost two years, until December 2021, before opposition MPs in a minority Parliament get a chance to vote again on government spending or taxation measures.

Every opposition MP in the House of Commons on Tuesday must say no to this. ...

(Sidebar: not bloody likely.) 

Giving this much power, as described in this bill, not only rips the constitution to shreds, it rips the Magna Carta and more than 800 years of struggle to ensure the people being taxed had a say in how they were taxed.

In 1215, King John was forced to agree to a new set of rules that included the idea that the people could not be taxed without their consent.

“No scutage nor aid shall be imposed on our kingdom, unless by common counsel of our kingdom,” reads the Magna Carta.

Now Justin Trudeau wants more power than the King of England had in 1215.

(Sidebar: when you realise that the Charter is toilet paper written by a communist and that the Trudeau dynasty is no better than the Kim dynasty in North Korea, it all makes sense.)

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Communism is no model in normal times, and the last system you should emulate in a crisis. We need Magna Carta not the “Little Red Book” or the “Little Potato.” Starting with intelligent criticism of the idea that governments can save us all from the consequences of ceasing productive activity by creating wealth out of thin air.

Trudeau always believed it. Sure, he promised limited deficits for a brief period because his handlers told him otherwise he’d scare voters. But he never meant it. Now he talks of bestowing $100 billion or more on us like manna from heaven. But he’s really proposing confiscating $100 billion from some hard-pressed Canadians to give to others even harder-pressed. Who’s going to pay for it and how in a weakened economy?

I doubt that any opposition will have any effect because it is either lukewarm or the Liberals will wait until Canadians have forgotten all about this and try again:

I do not deny that the COVID-19 crisis had, by the 13th, induced widespread panic among the public, in Canada and abroad. But panic is never, ever, an excuse to override our ancient political conventions (“conventions” = accepted practices, that override the formal rules, whatever those nominal rules might happen to be).  These conventions are the oldest and best protections that exist for our political liberties.

What happened on Friday the 13th was a collective error, and can be forgiven, as long as all participants acknowledge, post facto, that—whatever the merits of the content of Bills C-10, C-11 and C-12—the House of Commons can never give its consent to a measure, the content of which has not yet been revealed to the House.

But there is no guarantee that the Government has learned this lesson. Indeed, if we are to take our signs from the first draft of Bill C-13, which is to be introduced today (and which was leaked last night), it would appear that the Government’s primary interest is in using the COVID-19 crisis to strip away any Parliamentary oversight whatever, between now and December 2021—twenty-one months in the future, and long after the health crisis is likely to have come to an end.

In such an environment, I found myself, over the past few days, growing increasingly alarmed—even before the first draft of Bill C-13 revealed that the Government was planning on enacting what the Constitutional Authorities refer to as a “Henry VIII Bill” (i.e. an act to allow the Executive to function without the approval of Parliament). I decided that I would have to come to Commons, take my seat, and deny unanimous consent, if the bill—any bill, including one that turns out on inspection to be innocuous—were introduced in such a way as to deprive MPs like myself the ability to read the bill prior to giving our consent.

What would have happened if Bill C-13 had been drafted in advance, and had been included in the package of measures adopted, in a single swoop, eleven days ago? In a flash, Canada would have ceased to have Responsible Government until the year 2022.

(Sidebar: even further.)

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BREAKING: Parliament suspended.
Update on talks to help Canadians and stop the power grab. pic.twitter.com/XGS4bAMBMw

— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) March 24, 2020

(Sidebar: if one does not believe for even a moment that Canadians would agree to this, just read these feeds and prove me wrong. This is how Justin's handlers can think of pulling a stunt like this and getting away with it. A stupid populace goes a long way.)




Oh, it doesn't end there:

The Liberal government says using location tracking technology is not totally off the table, Justin Trudeau said Tuesday.

“I think we recognize that in an emergency situation we need to take certain steps that wouldn’t be taken in a non-emergency situation, but as far as I know that is not a situation we are looking at right now,” he said.

“But … all options are on the table to do what is necessary to keep Canadians safe.”

Stopping flights from China would keep the country safe, Herr Hitler.

(Merci)