Don't Under-estimate the Power of Spite

 It's what drives the pants-wetting crowd:

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says he personally contacted reporters and “urged them to be very careful” in dealing with the Freedom Convoy. MPs who voted to invoke the Emergencies Act repeatedly praised coverage of the political protests against vaccine mandates: “As for journalists, trust me, I reached out to some of them.”

 

This soft, disgusting, vile, slobbering creature.

When you think of the Liberals, think of this:

The man wanted the PM to explain his views on ISIS; “how you’re going to protect future Canadians like my young daughter 10, 15 or 20 years from now, when you’re letting in people with an ideology that just does not conform to what we’re doing here.”
Trudeau then went into his rambling answer about how Canada is a welcoming country that takes in people from all over the world who are fleeing persecution and poverty. He then made reference to other groups of people who came to Canada in large numbers, specifically Greek, Italian and Portuguese immigrants.

In other words, ISIS fighters are no different than the immigrants who came to Canada in years gone by from Western European countries.

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At one gruesome point, Nada told me through an interpreter during our hour-long interview at an educational meeting on the Yazidi situation this past Sunday, Nada and her children were forced to watch four men being beheaded. Eventually, because Nada speaks fluent Arabic and could pass as Muslim, she was able to escape with her children and contact family members in Kurdistan, who paid for smugglers to take them there.

Canada accepted Nada and her children, but not her father or sister. She has been living in London, Ont., for eight months. Recently, on a bus, she recognized X — the slave-market boss who had owned her and used her for months. They got off at the same stop. X saw her, covered his face and ran off.

 

Because he might possibly and maybe do something:

A week after the protest in downtown Ottawa was cleared by law enforcement, the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) announced on Feb. 27 the arrest of a participant located one hour east of the Canadian capital.

The OPS said Steeve Charland, 48, of Grenville, Quebec, was arrested by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in the Vankleek Hill area.

Charland has been charged with mischief and counselling to commit the offence of mischief. He was due to appear in court on Feb. 27, said the OPS in a statement.

 

No one takes you seriously, Justin:

As we all embarrassedly witnessed, the prime minister’s handling of the “occupation” of Ottawa by a few hundred protesting knights of the road with big rigs—not to be confused with the real occupation of Ukraine by almost 200,000 Kremlin troops—gave the appearance of a man who arrives at the highest office in the land each morning in a convoy of clown cars. The most charitable reading suggested a man deeply out of his depth.

His rationalization for forcing on Canadians the never-before-deployed Emergencies Act, then abruptly withdrawing it with a farcical “Crisis? What crisis?” flourish 36 hours later, was patently false. It was so obviously fraudulent only certain dupes and stooges in the Canadian media could be relied on to buy it.

Even the liberal New York Times, never mind the rock-ribbed Republican Wall Street Journal, laughed up its cross-border sleeve at the gullibility of northern journalistic confreres swallowing it all. It’s easy to see why.

The PM claimed only the federal Emergencies Act afforded the necessary powers to free the parliamentary precinct and downtown Ottawa from the overwhelming force of truck-driving siege meisters. The premise was that neither municipal nor provincial laws gave sufficient authorization to pepper spray protesters in the eyes, use baton-wielding police to drive the miscreants off, seize their vehicles, and finally attack their bank accounts, chattels, mortgages, investments, etc.

Only days before, however, Ottawa’s own chief of police lost his job because, it was claimed, he failed to exercise municipal powers available to him to stop the truckers’ protest. The prime minister’s claim and the city’s claim about the police chief’s ouster could not both be true.

If the chief failed to exercise his powers, then he must have had the powers to begin with. If the powers were as non-existent as the prime minister claimed, the chief could not have lost his job for failing to exercise what he didn’t have. (Note to Ottawa ambulance chasers who take on the chief’s wrongful dismissal suit: Add Justin Trudeau to the witness list.)

Earlier minor skirmishes in Toronto and at Windsor’s Ambassador Bridge made it clear that Ontario law gave ample power for clearing operations. They were boots-on-the-ground proof that the prime minister, let us be polite, made the whole Emergencies Act thing up.

H.R. McMaster’s coinage of “strategic narcissism” helps us understand why. It explains Trudeau’s reluctance-cum-failure to simply go out on the first day of the truckers’ protest, meet with the gathering lads and lassies, and say: “Lookit guys and gals (sorry, that’s how scions of wealthy Westmount families think working class people talk), them goldurn mandates are droppin’ across our great and glorious land. We figure she’ll be done by mid-March, or ‘round abouts. Head on home to your homesteads (Westmount scions think all rural folk in Canada live on a homestead, and all truck drivers are rural folk) and we’ll get ‘er done.”

Also:

Cabinet has confidential information justifying extraordinary police powers against Freedom Convoy truckers, the Senate was told yesterday. Skeptical senators questioned why records could not be shown to legislators: “The short answer is no.”