But don't take my word for it:
Former Reform Party leader Preston Manning says one of the reasons the Liberal government invoked the Emergencies Act to put an end to the convoy protests was because they realized a great portion of the support for the protests came from Quebec, the Liberals’ “home base.”
“I can’t prove this. But it seems to me that politically, the Liberals don’t care if they make a whole bunch of people in Western Canada mad, they’re not going to vote for them anyway. But I think when they started to see this support coming from Quebec, … that worried them to the point where it was probably a factor, that, ‘we better put a stop to this, and the Emergencies Act is a way to do it,” Manning told The Epoch Times.
As Canadian truckers and their supporters make their way from western Canada to Ottawa this weekend, Quebec truckers are expected to gather at several border crossings Friday morning, including Lacolle, Stanstead and St-Theophile, hoping to support the cause.
Truckers are heading to the nation’s capital to protest the vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers, but since the movement has grown other groups are associating themselves with the truckers to protest COVID-19 restrictions in general that they say violate their freedoms. Supporters of the movement say they want Ottawa to end all vaccine-related mandates, even though most of them are the responsibility of individual provinces.
“I'm heading to Ottawa for freedom,” said Quebec convoy co-organizer Simon Vallee, who rejects vaccines and sanitary measures.
“When I saw it move from British Columbia, it touched my heart and I knew I had to get involved.”
So there's that.
Also:
The public inquiry into the federal government’s unprecedented use of the Emergencies Act is asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to provide information currently kept secret under cabinet confidence principles, stressing the need for transparency and openness as it studies why the controversial decision was made to deal with the so-called “Freedom Convoy” protests this year.
In documents published Wednesday, the Public Order Emergency Commission conducting the inquiry said the starting point of its study is to look at why the Liberal government invoked the act for the first time since it became law in 1988.
“It is the government that must explain its decision to do so,” the documents say. “In light of this, the commission has asked the government to disclose … the information, including advice and information that may be protected by cabinet confidence or any applicable privilege.”
Because only the douchebag can waste jet fuel:
Why is the government still clinging to these mandates? Why are the unvaccinated still forbidden to travel by air in their own country? Why are airport authorities themselves not condemning their singular obligation to enforce these useless and self-contradicting rules? How much damage are they doing to business and tourism?
For those who do it frequently, even before the pandemic, going to airports and flying in and out of Canada was one of the most miserable of modern experiences — summed up in the slogan so many passengers are familiar with: “We’re not happy, till you’re not happy.”
Singling out air travellers as the only people who these cursed mandates still apply to adds another layer of misery to something that is as far removed from joy as the mind allows and a mean government can supply.
A federal agency had ample warning of rising passenger volumes before hours-long delays at airports, figures show. The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority knew for months that travel volumes were predictably doubling and tripling from 2021 levels: “Additional funding will be necessary.”
It's not just highway robbery. It's naked contempt for the taxpayer who is too gullible to see how he is being squirrelled:
That pain at the pump you are feeling is causing squeals of delight in Ottawa as taxes from record high gas prices fill the federal coffers.
Inflation, an increased carbon tax and extra GST revenue may be taking their toll on your bank account, but they’re ensuring Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government can keep up their high spending ways.
The price of gas hit record highs across Canada over the weekend and might go higher still later in the week.
The Trudeau government has been dismissive of the idea that the spike in the price of gas is anything but the result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. While the impact of a war and the ensuing sanctions on a major player in the oil market is helping drive up the cost of gas, we’re also doing it to ourselves.
(Sidebar: why would we get oil from that belligerent in that ethnic conflict we should have nothing to do with?)
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