Your mid-week [censored by the government] ...
There are people who clearly do not give a fig what the petty little tyrant and his jowls think of them:
Members of the Ottawa blockade that has kept the capital at a standstill for nearly three full weeks are calling the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act a scare tactic.
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People still participating in the so-called “Freedom Convoy” blockade of downtown Ottawa are being warned by police to “leave the area now” as questions heat up about when police will act to remove the demonstrators who have paralyzed the nation’s capital for 20 days.
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I asked an American activist about how he felt about Justin Trudeau invoking the emergency act law he started " you can shove it up your ass Justin" #JustinTrudeau #CanadaHasFallen #nyc pic.twitter.com/lfITIkvkRf
— Viral News NY (@ViralNewsNYC) February 15, 2022
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Protests outside the Canadian Embassy in New York drew crowds on Tuesday as New Yorkers stated their support for the Canadian truckers' Freedom Convoy that shut down the Ambassador Bridge and gridlocked Ottawa. Despite the new force being used against their protest, the truckers on Monday said in a press conference that they would "hold the line."
Footage by Leeroy Press shows protesters outside the Canadian Embassy on Manhattan's Park Avenue waving American and Canadian flags and showing their support for the protesters against the Trudeau government, which yesterday enacted the Emergencies Act. This was opposed by premiers of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Quebec.
What the Nuremberg Laws Emergencies Act entails:
Bringing children to the antigovernment blockades that have immobilized downtown Ottawa and shuttered border crossings is among the activities that could net protesters a fine of up to $5,000 or five years in prison while Canada is under the national Emergencies Act.
The same punishment would apply to anyone violating any of the new rules, such as participating in the protests directly, or bringing aid such as food or fuel to those involved, according to regulations published Tuesday night that spell out the temporary but extraordinary powers that flow through the act.
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The regulations also list the places blockades are not allowed, including Parliament Hill and the streets around it known as the parliamentary precinct where many federal buildings are found. Hundreds of vehicles have blocked roads there for more than two weeks.
They also apply to airports, harbours, border crossings, piers, lighthouses, canals, interprovincial and international bridges, hospitals, trade corridors and infrastructure needed for the supply of utilities including power generation and transmission.
An order on emergency economic measures gives special powers to police, banks and insurance companies to freeze accounts and cancel vehicle insurance belonging to people participating in what the orders deem to be “illegal assemblies.”
How the tyrants and their good Germans see this popular movement:
Concerns about “serious violence” for political and ideological gain are among the reasons cited by the federal government for invoking Canada’s Emergencies Act over the so-called “Freedom Convoy.”
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Police may break up any public gathering deemed an “illegal assembly” under an Emergencies Act order signed by cabinet. Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino yesterday said extraordinary measures were needed to contain a “very small organized group” of Freedom Convoy truckers he claimed wanted to topple the federal government: “People who live in Ottawa do not feel safe right now.”
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Commons Speaker Anthony Rota offered reporters armed guards at taxpayers’ expense after the Parliamentary Press Gallery complained it was troubled by Freedom Convoy truck drivers. Parliament Hill guards armed with federal-issue handguns were available to keep reporters safe, said Rota: “I have followed up with the Sergeant-at-Arms.”
What is actually happening:
Despite reports to the contrary, preliminary police data shows street crime has actually fallen since the Freedom Convoy blockade began at Parliament in Ottawa, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
The truckers’ blockade covers 10 square blocks in the Centretown district and finished its sixth day on Thursday.
There were only three reports of street crime in that district since the protest began: For mischief, robbery and auto theft.
In the week before the protest, the same district saw 31 police calls for robbery, assault, drug trafficking, public drunkenness, stolen vehicles, store break-ins and other crimes.
“There have been no riots, injuries or deaths,” Police Chief Peter Sloly said Wednesday at the municipal Police Services Board.
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Ryan Alford, a professor with Lakehead University, said comparing the protests on Parliament Hill to terrorism is an overreach by the government. He said the protest, however inconvenient and illegal, has not included widespread violence.
“When we’re looking at Parliament Hill, we’re seeing bouncy castles. We’re not seeing attempts to storm Parliament,” he said.
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The National War Memorial has attracted numerous vandals in the past five years, the Commons veterans affairs committee was told last night. A police investigation remains underway for a mystery woman in a parka who jumped on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier: “It’s very emotional to see.”
I'll just leave this here:
A war memorial in Canada was vandalized on November 11 ahead of a celebration for Remembrance Day, a holiday to commemorate veterans. The graffiti on the memorial wall, located in Cranbrook, British Columbia, written in green paint, read: "The real heroes are the vaccinated!"
And this:
On Saturday, veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces took to the National War Memorial on Ottawa to remove the barricade surrounding the monument, and to perform some much-needed maintenance.
According to the veterans who spoke to some members of the press, the barricade surrounding the memorial prevented the city from maintaining it. The veterans showed respect to the monument by cleaning the ice and the accumulated debris around it, as shown on social media.
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"Today, on February 14, we received information from multiple believed, reliable sources that firearms may be planted in Ottawa," Bulford explains, "specifically around the Freedom Convoy to discredit the protest and to use as a pretext to forcibly remove peaceful protesters."
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The Emergencies Act is a fitting denouement, after two years of incompetence and overreach, to our national pandemic pantomime. Canadians have been forbidden from travelling to their own homes in the Maritimes. Cathedrals that can comfortably seat 2,000 were limited to five people.
How did we get here? The curtain on pandemic theatre rose just days after the Indigenous blockades of pipeline work sites and railways in February 2020. In response to that, federal and provincial ministers quickly concluded a deal to hand over new authority to the Wetʼsuwetʼen hereditary chiefs in northern British Columbia. The elected chiefs were cut out of the negotiations. The trucker convoy took note.
(Sidebar: I'll just leave this right here.)
The next great scene of pandemic theatre featured the Black Lives Matter protests, in which all social distancing and public gathering rules were cast aside. The prime minister even took a cameo knee. Canadians who were told to “follow the science” took note that political science seemed to be the better lens through which to look.
All the while, Canada’s leadership class developed new habits. Gone was a democratic respect for dissenting views and discordant voices. Instead there were decrees without reasonable explanation, and disparagement and disdain for any who disagreed.
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In the study, researchers first analyzed 1,070 assessments administered on 605 kids prior to March 2020, when COVID lockdowns and masking began.
Then, a further 154 assessments from 118 kids administered between March 2020 and June 2021, during the height of the pandemic, were carried out.
Meanwhile, 39 children born in 2018 and 2019 were analyzed over the course of the pandemic, into 2021.
The team then carried out checks on three widely accepted measures of child development – the early learning composite (ELC), verbal development quotient (VDQ), and non-verbal development quotient (NVDQ).
A child’s early learning composite is derived from their fine motor, visual reception, receptive, and expressive language scales, and is the early years equivalent to an IQ score.
The two development quotients measures how well a child is maturing in their language skills and other skills as compared with a sample of youngsters their own age.
Results showed the early learning composite mean result dropped by a whopping 23 per cent, from a high of just under 100 in 2019, to around 80 in 2020, and finally 77 in 2021.
Meanwhile, the verbal development quotient also dropped dramatically, from an average of 100 in 2018 to just below 90 in 2020, and around 70 in 2021.
The non-verbal development quotient also experienced a similar dip, from a mean score of around 105 in 2019, to 100 in 2020 and around 80 in 2021.
The study concluded that ‘children born during the pandemic have significantly reduced verbal, motor, and overall cognitive performance compared to children born pre-pandemic.’
‘In addition,’ the report adds, ‘masks worn in public settings and in school or daycare settings may impact a range of early developing skills, such as attachment, facial processing, and socioemotional processing.’
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Sweeping powers invoked by the federal government risk dropping the hammer on drivers and companies that have no direct role in blockades, the head of a trucking association says.
And though certain chair-moisteners appear to be loosening restrictions, they aren't, really.
One cannot upset the weirdo financier.
In Canada, there is speculation that Justin Trudeau and his family's foundation holds 40% of Acuitas, which is a manufacturer of mechanic lipids used by Pfizer.
Dr. Malone: "There appears that there may be a major financial conflict of interest on the part of Mr. Trudeau."
Now, about that:
“2. (d) to arrange their private affairs so that foreseeable real or apparent conflicts of interest may be prevented from arising, but if such a conflict does arise, to resolve it in a way that protects the public interest; ”
(Merci)
Not that Justin himself has a problem with "foreign money":
Clearly, the government is selective about battling threats to our democratic institutions. After all, what could be a more important democratic institution than our federal elections?
Overwhelming evidence of foreign money skewing the October 2015 federal election, which saw Trudeau’s Liberals swept into power, doesn’t appear to concern the PM.
U.S. money, funnelled to Canadian political advocacy groups, affected the outcome of that election, according to a document filed in 2017 with Elections Canada and obtained by the Calgary Herald at the time.
A report, titled Elections Canada Complaint Regarding Foreign Influence in the 2015 Canadian Election, which has not been released publicly, alleged that so-called third parties worked with each other — clearly bypassing election spending limits — all of which appeared to be in contravention of the Canada Elections Act.
The Canada Elections Act dictates that “a third party shall not circumvent, or attempt to circumvent, a limit set out . . . in any manner, including by splitting itself into two or more third parties for the purpose of circumventing the limit or acting in collusion with another third party so that their combined election advertising expenses exceed the limit.”
The Act also states: “No person who does not reside in Canada shall, during an election period, in any way induce electors to vote or refrain from voting for a particular candidate” unless the person is a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident.
But that’s apparently what happened, and yet Trudeau’s government was unconcerned, possibly because foreign money helped him win that election, if not more.
According to the registered society called Canada Decides that wrote that report, led by Joan Crockatt, a former Conservative MP for Calgary Centre who lost her seat to Liberal Kent Hehr by 750 votes, “the 2015 election was skewed by money from wealthy foreigners.”
In total, 114 third parties spent $6 million and many were funded by California and New York-based Tides Foundation — which donated $1.5 million to Canadian third parties.
Considering that there was an $8,788 spending limit per riding for that election, one can see how $6 million of foreign money donated to defeat 29 seats led by Conservatives would have an effect.
More on that pesky foreign dough:
I've read the Emergencies Act order-in-council and spoken to several lawyers – no one has any idea whether the government will target individual convoy donors because they've provided no info about what they plan to do.What the order does indicate is that the government is viewing support for the convoy in the same way it views money laundering and terrorist financing.
On Thursday, we had the capper. Fife again — he is quickly becoming the Paul Revere of all Khadr news — gave us the revelations that the $10.5 million, tax free be it noted, had already been handed over. Process complete. A government famously so sluggish in so many areas — veterans’ treatment comes first to mind — went full Road Runner getting the cash to Khadr.
Three things mark the Khadr announcement. The government didn’t want in any visible way to be associated with it. They wanted it done swiftly and with maximum distraction. And they didn’t want Trudeau on the same continent when the news broke.
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According to a Global News report, the terrorists stole laptops and cellphones that were funded by Canadian foreign aid ...
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Canada’s Liberal government under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has given close to $1 million of taxpayer money to help fund “research” for new COVID-19 “screening and diagnosis” tools at the Chinese lab where the virus is suspected to have originated.
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Some federal organizations still refuse to obtain crucial cyber defence services from their own security and IT agencies at a time when government organizations are the target of unprecedented levels of cyber threats, namely from China and Russia.
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Proponents of Huawei insist the Chinese tech giant is a purely commercial entity. However, as detailed by Munk Senior Fellow Duanjie Chen in our latest MLI report, titled Huawei Risk is a China Risk: Why Canada Needs to Ban Huawei’s Involvement in 5G, this view glosses over Huawei’s intimate relationship with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), its inexplicably rapid growth, and its global track record of predatory behaviour.
According to Chen, 5G will be the backbone of Canada’s critical infrastructure, making it imperative for the federal government to ban Huawei’s involvement in our next-generation network.
(Sidebar: this Huawei.)
Before the predictable chorus of "Well, if you have nothing to hide...", a couple of notes:
1) Donating to a peaceful protest is not illegal.
2) When government suspends due process and proof requirements, even those with nothing to do with any of this could be caught up in it.
Now Israel has its own convoy:
Despite a near blackout by much of the Israeli press, as many as 20,000 vehicles participated in a “Freedom Convoy” to Jerusalem on Monday, culminating with large protests outside Israel’s Knesset and Supreme Court.
Vehicles set off on Monday morning from 40 cities across Israel, calling on the government to lift the state of emergency declared due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the event’s organizers.
The convoy, which included trucks, tractors, cars and motorcycles, traveled across Israel’s main highways with supporters lining bridges and large traffic junctions throughout the day. The convoy caused major traffic delays across much of the country. ...
The convoy, inspired by similar protests in Canada and other countries around the world was organized around a central message: “Take back the wheel”—meaning undoing the state of emergency and repealing the so-called “major corona law” granting the government special powers to deal with the spread of the virus, organizers said in a statement.
The project was organized by laypeople and funded via a crowdfunding campaign.
(Sidebar: don't tell Chrystia! She'll steal your money and I've heard that her granddad was not fond of the tribes.)
Shabbat shalom, everybody!
Also:
The Biden administration has abruptly withdrawn American support for the Eastern Mediterranean (EastMed) pipeline, a project aimed at shipping natural gas from Israel to European markets. The White House said the project was antithetical to its "climate goals."
In reaching its decision, which effectively kills EastMed, the White House appears to have caved to pressure from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has vociferously opposed the underwater pipeline because it would bypass Turkey.
In other news ...
He bade his time to announce his run for prime minister.
That sounds like opportunism, not principle:
Pierre Poilievre, the heir apparent of the Conservative party, may not have the support of some social conservatives, a powerful bloc within the party, who have raised concerns about his voting record on abortion issues.
(Sidebar: look, stupids, if there was a powerful social conservative block anywhere, there would be an abortion law in this country. But there isn't.)
Getting the inflation you voted for:
Statistics Canada says the annual pace of inflation topped five per cent for the first time in more than 30 years.
The agency says the annual inflation rate rose to 5.1 per cent in January compared with a gain for 4.8 per cent in December.
Driving much of the increase in January were prices for housing, gasoline and groceries.
There are no jobs or houses for these migrants:
Canada must raise immigration quotas again this year to help employers fill labour shortages, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser said yesterday. The nation’s jobless currently number more than 1.3 million: “Get workers here to fill those jobs where business owners can’t find Canadians.”
Immigration Minister Sean Fraser yesterday said he is determined to root out racism in his own department. Fraser’s remarks follow a report the department tolerated crude bigotry including managers who patted a Black employee’s hair and called Indigenous people lazy: “Are you saying there is discrimination in your department?”
But Justin said that rapists of children made good Canadians:
The federal government has quietly adopted a policy that all but closes the door to repatriating Canadians from detention facilities in Syria for captured ISIS members and their families.
The secretive policy document on the detainees obtained by Global News said the government had no obligation to repatriate them and would only assist them under limited circumstances.
It's alright to malign others, American court rules:
A jury in Sarah Palin’s libel suit against the New York Times on Tuesday returned a unanimous verdict that found there was insufficient evidence to prove that the newspaper had defamed her.
The verdict came a day after U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff said he would dismiss the lawsuit because Palin’s lawyers had failed to produce evidence that the newspaper knew that what it wrote about her in a 2017 editorial was false or defamatory.
“You decided the facts, I decided the law,” Rakoff told the jury following its verdict. “As it turns out, they were both in agreement with this case."
Rakoff’s initial dismissal announcement came as a Manhattan jury was deliberating the closely watched case. Rakoff said Palin had failed to show that the Times had acted out of malice, which is required in libel lawsuits involving public figures. Palin is expected to appeal the decision.
The suit revolved around a 2017 editorial that incorrectly connected the former vice presidential candidate’s political action committee to a 2011 shooting in Arizona that severely wounded Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz., and left six others dead.
Russia said on Wednesday that it has ended its military drills in Crimea, and that an unspecified number of its troops would return to their bases.
"The units of the Southern Military District, which have completed their participation in tactical exercises on the training grounds of the Crimean Peninsula, are marching to their permanent deployment points by rail," said the Russian Defense Ministry in a statement. ...
The announcement came a day after Russia declared it would withdraw some forces from the Ukrainian border, and as the West continued to warn of a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin had amassing more than 100,000 Russian troops on Ukraine's border since November, though it has denied planning an attack.
But it has tested Western resolve.
There is nothing to back up that resolve.
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