The sixteen-percenter Justin must gush with pride that his dad never got to be this dictatorial:
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association, which unlike the ACLU is still a functional civil rights group, noted that, "The Emergencies Act can only be invoked when a situation 'seriously threatens the ability of the Government of Canada to preserve the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Canada' & when the situation 'cannot be effectively dealt with under any other law of Canada.'
The CCLA is well on the Left and spends a good deal of time crying racism, but it can still point out the obvious here.
This is not an emergency that requires the suspension of civil rights and democratic norms, it's a vocal protest that the government finds threatening enough (not physically, but politically) that it's resorting to criminalizing and suppressing it, not because it meets any objective standard, just a political one.
"It is now clear that there are serious challenges to law enforcement's ability to effectively enforce the law," Trudeau argued.
That's often the case in Toronto, but no amount of crime and deaths has resulted in the imposition of emergency powers.
Toronto had the third deadliest year on record with 84 murders. How many people died during the Freedom Convoy?
Trudeau is literally reviving measures intended originally for a state of war to deal with political opponents in order to "restore confidence in our institutions".
That's what totalitarian regimes do. And that's what Trudeau now represents.
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Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced Monday that the government would require crowdfunding platforms to report to the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada to better track potential funding of what she says are illegal blockades.
The move, to be made permanent and which includes cryptocurrency-based funding, will allow Fintrac to make more information available to police and other enforcement agencies, she said.
Freeland said that under the Emergency Act, the government has also authorized financial institutions to cut off services to both individual and business clients who they suspect are aiding the blockades, and that federal institutions will also help provide information to identify those involved.
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Writing in the New York Times in 2011, Freeland described Schwab as a “rather traditional European social democrat who aims to encourage among … participants a kind of noblesse oblige, or its modern equivalent, stakeholder capitalism.” The political tradition that Freeland is describing originated with the reaction of privileged liberal elites rebelling against Europe’s feudal past, a world away from contemporary Canada. Search the 2019 Liberal party’s campaign platform, and you won’t find a single reference to “stakeholder capitalism.” Yet, as a member of the board of trustees of Schwab’s outfit, Freeland is implicitly or explicitly committed to importing this brand of European social democracy into a Canadian ethos originally founded on individual rights and free market capitalism, which in turn is premised on maximizing shareholder value. While Canada has drifted considerably leftward since its founding, a wholesale adoption of a corporatist philosophy and governance ethos imported from an exclusive gathering of the self-loathing rich who espouse these ideas over cocktails in the Swiss Alps would be nothing less than a subversion of Canadian democracy.
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Data analysis shows that just over 50 per cent of donations were said to originate in Canada, totalling US$4.3-million. Another 43 per cent, or US$3.6-million, were said to originate from the United States. (Because of how GiveSendGo collected country data during donations, The Globe was unable to conclusively determine donors’ geographical locations.)
A touch of deviousness to list the donations for a Canadian movement acting in Canada in American funds.
Well done, Globe and Mail!
I can see that $600 million was not a waste!
Now do Justin willing to accept American paramilitary help on Canadian soil to resolve a Canadian issue!
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BREAKING: Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster is combing through the illegally hacked database of GiveSendGo donors, and emailing donors asking them to explain themselves.
— Ezra Levant ππ (@ezralevant) February 15, 2022
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The Ontario Provincial Police are allegedly monitoring social media groups for the Freedom Convoy and visiting people’s homes who have commented on Facebook groups regarding the convoy. pic.twitter.com/CqNhsrmaZE
— Marie Oakes (@TheMarieOakes) February 11, 2022
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Organizers of the Freedom Convoy in the Canadian capital say they have notified police after being told that “nefarious elements” are planning to plant weapons at the Ottawa COVID-19 mandate demonstrations as a “pretext to forcibly remove peaceful protestors.”
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Justin hopes this Hitlerian move will blind people to his cowardice, incompetence and arrogance.
Nope:
Trudeau family have left their resident due to "security concerns" over the truckers who are currently gridlocking the city with their trucks, honking their horns, and participating in protests including singing the national anthem outside Parliament Hill.
Trudeau has offered only condemnation to the truckers and their protest, saying that the truckers and their supporters are a "small fringe minority."
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During Thursday's question period in the Canadian Parliament, Conservative MP Stephanie Kusie stood up to speak, and as she did so, Trudeau also stood up and walked off of the House floor.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fled an active parliamentary session to avoid answering a question from the opposition regarding his authoritarian COVID measures.
After Conservative Member of Parliament John Barlow hammered Trudeau with questions regarding his unscientific and discriminatory COVID measures, the floundering prime minister walked out of Parliament without answering as MPs booed and the Speaker of the House chuckled.
(Sidebar: yes, we know how helpful the political class is to themselves above all.)
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#NEW: @JustinTrudeau's office confirms online reports that PM went cross country skiing last weekend in Gatineau Park
— Travis Dhanraj (@Travisdhanraj) February 11, 2022
"Yes he got a chance to get some exercise (with his phone in his pocket) during a busy week, after working in isolation and following COVID protocols" #cdnpoli
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Let’s remember how we got here.
Through the entire pandemic, there was no vaccine requirement for truckers.
After all, the economy can’t function without truckers, and they spend most of their working time isolated from others.
By definition, trucking is quite a solitary profession.
There was no evidence showing truckers were a key vector of virus spread, and had never been brought up as a problem previously.
Additionally, with the spread of Omicron, even many establishment health officials were noting that vaccine mandates were becoming pointless in terms of doing anything to mitigate spread.
On top of that, many jurisdictions and countries around the world were loosening and eliminating restrictions and mandates, realizing that covid is becoming something endemic that societies will have to live with.
So, with all of that in mind, you realize how there is no case at all for imposing a vaccine mandate on truckers.
Yet, that’s what Justin Trudeau did anyway.
He did so after an election campaign in which – in a reversal of his previous stance – he decided to use vaccination status as a wedge issue, and used incredibly divisive rhetoric. Doing so benefitted him politically, as he and the Liberals held on to power – albeit with the weakest popular vote percentage of any ‘winner’ in Canadian history.
But the consequences of dividing a country and pitting people against each other doesn’t just go away.
Trudeau primed the nation for an outpouring of anger and division, particularly since Canadians had already been among the most restricted and locked-down people in the world.
He pushed and pushed and pushed, and kept getting away with it, as ‘polite and nice’ Canadians went along with what the government said.
Until they didn’t.
Fat chance, coward.
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