Monday, January 31, 2022

What Did You Do This Week-End?

A "fringe minority" that numbered in the thousands converged on the capital and other parts of Canada saying what quite should certainly be thinking now: 

Some background.

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Downtown Ottawa was jammed as a couple hundred vehicles decked out in Canadian flags arrived along Wellington and Queen streets to demonstrate against the federal vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers.

The Alexandra Bridge linking Ottawa and Gatineau was closed to traffic at 6 p.m. Friday until further notice. In a media release, Public Services and Procurement Canada cited “a load restriction” for the closure. The federal department also instituted lane reductions on the Macdonald-Cartier Bridge beginning at 8 p.m.

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Loads of photos here and here.

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The diverse band of truckers and their complaints.

Really.

Try as the bribed press might to portray them otherwise.

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Downtown Edmonton is ringing with the sound of honking horns, as huge crowds converge on the Alberta Legislature grounds in support of an anti-vaccine-mandate demonstration in Ottawa.

A truck convoy, which started from Acheson, Alta., just west of Edmonton, arrived in the city on Saturday at around 12 p.m. MT, to show support for a national convoy protesting the trucker COVID-19 vaccine mandate on Parliament Hill.

The block around the grounds is jammed with vehicles and freight trucks blaring their horns. Some vehicles have flags hanging out their windows or tailgates, others have signs denouncing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The streets, mainly northbound 109th Street and 99th Avenue, are lined with supporters of all ages. There are more supporters listening to speakers in the quad next to the Federal Building.

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Protesters continue to block traffic on Highway 4 near the Coutts border crossing in Southern Alberta on Sunday after cutting off the road Saturday afternoon, according to Alberta RCMP.

Semi-trucks and other vehicles still sit idle on the highway leading south from Lethbridge in support of the national protest convoy against vaccines mandate for truckers that reached Ottawa Saturday.

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Dissent is infections:

Nova Scotia has made it illegal to gather alongside the interprovincial highway in support of the Truckers for Freedom Convoy.

The provincial government announced the directive Friday afternoon, claiming that “allowing people to gather in those areas would put themselves and others at risk.”

Although called a “Highway Blockade Ban” on the government’s press release, and is nominally directed towards “prohibiting protesters from blockading Highway 104 near the Nova Scotia-New Brunswick border,” the ban also covers supporters of trucking convoys.

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Truckers in the Netherlands formed a convoy on Sunday to protest their nation’s lockdown measures, following the lead of their fellow road hauliers in Canada.

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American truckers protesting against vaccine mandates and government overreach have been joining a record-breaking Canadian convoy of tens of thousands of vehicles headed to Ottawa.

Brian Von D, the administrator at “Convoy to DC 2022” announced that they will “join forces” to ride from California to Washington, adding that “America is next.”

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Austria plans to loosen coronavirus restrictions in February after the country’s national vaccine mandate, the first of its kind in Europe, takes effect on Tuesday.

Starting Feb. 5, restaurants will be allowed to remain open until midnight, as opposed to 10 p.m., Chancellor Karl Nehammer said at a Saturday news conference.

In addition, rules effectively barring unvaccinated people from stores and restaurants will be phased out. Starting Feb. 12, proof of vaccination or recovery will no longer be required to enter shops. A week later, on Feb. 19, entry into restaurants will be allowed for all who can prove vaccination, recovery or a negative coronavirus test.

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Because Rex Murphy:

Trudeau, in perhaps his meanest public statement to date, scorned them. He dismissed and derogated their motives. He gave the dismissal in his best “I’m-a-real-leader,” determined voice. His “I-really-mean-it-this-time” voice.

He described them as “a small fringe minority.” A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian, someone once said. But this “small fringe minority” can’t be Canadians. They have “unacceptable views.”

“Unacceptable views?” Are we in China now?

Trudeau isn’t Plato. He may even be a few steps down from that high intellect. But even if he were, I’d hold off on the prime minister of a democracy ruling on what is or is not acceptable.

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(Sidebar: a genuine opinion unlike someone who was obviously a paid agitator who cleared off after being found out. Oops.)

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Maxime Bernier intends to participate in the demonstration of truckers who, according to him, are victims, like all non-vaccinated people, of discriminatory authoritarian measures that must end.

In a virtual press conference on Friday, the leader of the People's Party of Canada (PPC) launched a full-throated charge against the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau government and the provincial governments, accusing them of violating the rights of Canadians with health measures that are the exception, while European countries and American states are lifting their restrictions.

He said that unvaccinated cross-border truckers are safe and should be able to continue their work unhindered at the border. He also condemned similar measures imposed by U.S. authorities at the border, accusing the prime minister of "colluding" with President Joe Biden.

 

 

But Justin thought he should get away from it all:

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did not comment Saturday on the Freedom Convoy 2022 demonstration in Ottawa as thousands of people and hundreds of trucks descended on Parliament Hill in numbers so large police closed the city core to traffic.

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Justin Trudeau is a man who claims to be woken than woke. We all remember him saying it’s ‘peoplekind’ not ‘mankind’, for example.

Yet this is a man who has worn blackface, and who is very comfortable running roughshod over his population’s civil liberties. All in the name of ‘being kind’.

Not content with banning the unvaccinated from public transport and working in federal departments, he’s forcing truckers travelling between the US and Canada to quarantine.

And he called the protesters a small fringe minority. Well, when the convoy arrived in Ottawa he and his family fled and went into hiding. It’s either something much larger than a fringe movement, or he’s the kind of man who legs it from a small group of protesters. If it’s the latter, I’m not sure he’s the kind of person you’d want leading your country.

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Satire but barely:

A "freedom convoy" of Canadian truckers is on its way to Ottawa in protest of vaccine mandates. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pushing back at accusations of tyrannical government overreach by claiming the truckers just hate him because he's black.

"As a proud black man, this is the kind of discrimination I have faced my whole life," said Trudeau in a nationwide address over Zoom. "These truckers are a bunch of racist white men. They're probably not even gay."

"They only hate me because I'm black!"

Trudeau, who is currently quarantining in spite of a negative COVID-19 test, also sent off dozens of angry letters to "whoever hires truckers" because of all the racism. While literally shaking, he wrote, "If you oppose vaccines you are racist, sexist, and think a Snow White remake is a good idea."

His intern passed the letters on to Canadian Mounties who rode to the four corners of Canada to take the message to the people.

Trudeau, who is suspiciously not black looking, was offended when members attempted to spin his statement, suggesting he was merely close to the black community.

"I am not speaking metaphorically," said Trudeau. "Look at my skin. It's as black as night. It's midnight black!"

"If you weren't so naively color blind you'd understand," he added.

 

 

Still in hiding, he bravely told the bribed press that he would never back down as long as the Chinese put money into his dad's foundation and still insulted the multitudes who showed up and calmly stood the ground Justin fled.: 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he “won’t give in” to the so-called “freedom convoy” protest in downtown Ottawa.

 

(Sidebar: "so-called" is Global News' spin on this popular movement. $600 million buys a lot of smear.)

The convoy isn't going anywhere and the world saw you use your own kid as a deflection from your own cowardice.

You're through.


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