Monday, November 28, 2022

China's Other China, Canada

The Liberals - doing China's bidding since 1969:

Defence Minister Anita Anand said using Canadian soldiers during the Freedom Convoy protests was something she stressed had to be a measure of last resort and avoided at all costs.

 

Is that so?:

Only days after Freedom Convoy first set up shop in the Ottawa core, federal ministers were casually discussing whether they should order the demonstration to be crushed with tanks.

The exchange was revealed in text messages tabled before the Emergencies Act inquiry. On Feb. 2 – just five days after anti-mandate protesters set up blockades in the national capital — Justice Minister David Lametti sent a text to Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino urging him to call in the Canadian Armed Forces.

“You need to get the police to move. And the CAF if necessary. Too many people are being seriously adversely impacted by what is an occupation,” Lametti texted to Mendicino.

“How many tanks are you asking for. I just wanna ask (Defence Minister) Anita (Anand) how many we’ve got on hand,” was the reply.

To which Lametti wrote back “I reckon one will do!!”

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Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland in a confidential video conference with bankers said she “couldn’t agree more” with a recommendation that cabinet deploy armed soldiers against the Freedom Convoy. “It is a threat to our democracy,” said Freeland: “All options are on the table.”


 


 

The smears, of course, haven't stopped:

Former public safety minister Ralph Goodale in an email to cabinet said he suspected the Freedom Convoy was a U.S. neo-Nazi movement. The finding contradicted police memos denying protesters were violent extremists: “It may even have U.S. roots.”

 

(Sidebar: this Ralph Goodale.) 


Yes, about that:

In that interview, Perry claimed that, even by 2015, she’d identified “more than 100 active far-right groups across Canada.” Then in the intervening four years, she apparently discovered another 200. The new 300 estimate is cited in a March, 2019 Star interview — though, oddly, several months later, Perry was heard telling the CBC that the number is closer to 130. More recently, in August, 2020, she repeated the 300 figure to an Oshawa Express reporter, and added that these are real groups — not just one-off Twitter or Facebook accounts operated as fanboy relay stations for foreign haters — that (in the reporter’s words) “could range from three or four members up to several hundred.”

I emailed Prof. Perry this week to inquire about where I could find her database. Unfortunately, she told me that she wouldn’t be releasing the information till spring, even though she’s been sitting on the list for two years. When I asked why, she explained that releasing the list “wouldn’t make sense” unless the data were couched within a larger published report, such as the one she has planned. (I would like to quote her full response, but she would allow me to do so only if I showed her a draft of this article first, which I declined to do.)

I find it odd that, to my knowledge, I’m one of only two journalists who’ve publicly asked to see this information (the other being Lindsay Shepherd, who first raised this issue in late 2020). The Star and CBC, in particular, now regularly publish articles darkly suggesting that Canada is on the cusp of some kind of full-on white supremacist apocalypse. Given the urgent need to fight off the forces of Nazidom, shouldn’t they be leading the charge for this data rather than just repeating Perry’s bottom-line number?

Or consider the aforementioned NDP petition, which demands “measures to tackle online hate, including regulations to have social media platforms remove hateful and violent content.” But in pursuit of that goal, what resource could be more valuable to regulators and tech workers than a definitive catalog of the 300 Canadian groups that are actively fomenting white supremacism? Perry’s research is funded by Public Safety Canada and the Canadian Armed Forces. Shouldn’t the NDP, of all parties, be the first to demand that the public receives the benefit of this subsidized outlay?

 

 

Chrystia Chomiak's Freeland's -

This Chrystia Freeland, by the way:

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Below is a video of Finance Minister and Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland chuckling when she announces they have frozen the bank accounts of people associated with the Freedom Convoy. ...

 

- testimony (erroneous and frightfully subservient to the Americans- so she claims) was no match for Justin's, itself a sideshow alone:

Amid the media praise for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s performance as the final witness at the public inquiry into his invocation of the Emergencies Act, keep in mind his government refused to give the inquiry a key piece of evidence Justice Paul Rouleau wanted to see.

That was the legal brief prepared by the federal justice department — referred to by Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) director David Vigneault in his testimony — which Trudeau and his cabinet used to justify invoking the EA.

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Previously at the commission, RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki testified after weeks of work the OPP, RCMP and Ottawa Police had come together with a proposal to end the protests. But Trudeau said his briefings on that plan indicated it was still incomplete.

“I would recommend people take a look at the actual plan,” he said. “It was not, even in the most generous of characterizations, a plan for how they’re going to end the occupation in Ottawa.”

During cross examination, Trudeau said he hadn’t read through the plan, but the briefings he received indicated it wasn’t a proposal to quickly and effectively clear the streets.

“There was no confidence that we were on a track to getting the national emergency under control,” he said.

Blockades in Windsor, Ont., and Coutts, Alta., were being wrapped up when Trudeau invoked the act, but he said he was concerned that without the act they would flare up again.

 

Yes, about all of that: 

Canada's intelligence agency didn't believe the self-styled Freedom Convoy constituted a threat to national security according to the definition in its enabling law, says a document previewed as part of the Emergencies Act inquiry Monday.

 

So, what was it really about?:

... what exactly was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s objective in evoking the Emergencies Act against the Freedom Convoy? 

After all, he could have cleared downtown Ottawa in exactly the same way the Ontario Provincial Police cleared the Ambassador Bridge, using the same legislative authority the OPP used in Windsor. Instead, he opted to freeze bank accounts, arrest organizers, and threaten truckers’ commercial insurance and vehicle registrations. 

It’s possible that in the Freedom Convoy, Trudeau’s team saw a real, growing opposition gaining support from millions of Canadian voters and taxpayers. The Convoy raised $10 million in only a few weeks; and when the government succeeded in freezing the truckers’ GoFundMe account, Convoy organizers turned around and raised millions again on the GiveSendGo platform. 

They in fact raised more money in a month than the Liberal Party raised in the entire year of 2020. That’s a frighteningly impressive fundraising ability, demonstrated by a brand-new group with no political track record.

 

Quite.

The government and the banks made haste in seizing bank accounts (and paid the price for it).

The popular grassroots movement was a homegrown affair, a sign that discontent against Trudeau was more than a few angry letters to the editor.

Justin had to use every tool to remove the humiliating reminder that he is hated, even the police, and especially lies:

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Premiers could not longer defend or support the over-reaching mandates that served no purpose:

The federal government invoked the Emergencies Act on Feb. 14. Earlier that day, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held a meeting with premiers of provinces and territories to discuss the invocation of the act.
Then-premier of Alberta, Jason Kenney, said on the call that he had previously asked the federal government to end its vaccine mandate for truckers, which sparked the protests. The mandate, introduced on Jan. 15, required truck drivers entering Canada from the United States to be vaccinated for COVID-19 or face a 14-day quarantine upon re-entry.
“I do not understand the public health rationale, given the level of transmission,” notes from the meeting paraphrase Kenney as saying, according to evidence presented at the POEC.
“Truckers are isolated in cabs, can do rapid tests. Thought it was an unnecessary provocation, as well as language that has been used.” Kenney has been critical of Trudeau associating the protesters with Nazism, a charge protest organizers have rejected. ...
The notes show that Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said during the meeting that convoy protesters are demonstrating against “public health measures and mandates,” and that other countries had already either dropped similar mandates or announced plans to do so.
“Haven’t seen that yet from the federal government,” Moe is paraphrased as saying. “This would be the most effective tool to reduce the temperature and allow law enforcement to remove protesters, notably in Ottawa.”
Moe also said dropping the mandates “would provide another way to unite people across the country.” ...
Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson said that many provinces are reducing or eliminating COVID-19 restrictions, “sending hope and opportunity for individual provinces and citizens across the country.”
“Should be a plan by the federal government to look at restrictions at the border to potentially deescalate things,” the notes paraphrase her as saying. ...
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs said that “frustration is winding down, because people are seeing hope.”

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The majority of provinces and territories say there is no need to invoke the federal Emergencies Act, and that it should be up to each government to determine how they respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The question was posed to premiers in a letter penned by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday, asking whether there’s a need for further federal oversight to fight the virus.

 

 

To wit - Justin's past performances of frustration and tantrums.

Enjoy:

 

 

Before one forgets, the martial law Justin inflicted on Canadians is not vastly different from what is happening in China.

Don't pretend that the two are different.

Justin isn't the hero:

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