Your mid-week moment of freedom ...
It's punishment for humiliating an absolutist government led by an inept and divisive coward. We can stop pretending that this over-reach is anything but:
Even a $20 donation to the Freedom Convoy after Feb. 15 could result in the donor’s bank accounts being frozen, a Commons committee heard Tuesday.
As reports of frozen accounts linked to convoy donations continue to roll in, members of the Commons finance committee spent Tuesday afternoon questioning staff from the Canada Revenue Agency and the departments of Finance and Justice about the controversial emergency measures that allow police to lock bank accounts of those suspected of funding the illegal protests without first obtaining a court order.
“Just to be clear, a financial contribution either through a crowdsourced platform or directly, could result in their bank account being frozen?” Conservative MP Philip Lawrence asked Department of Finance Assistant Deputy Minister Isabelle Jacques.
“Yes,” she replied.
“They didn’t have to actively be involved in the protest, they didn’t have to be here in Ottawa at one of the blockades?” Lawrence asked.
“No, not themselves,” she replied.
“It could be indirectly.”
And there one has it.
The protesters, having been arrested, denied bail by a Liberal-friendly, unelected judge, having no financial support and vilified by the bribed press, having been removed from Parliament Hill and were certainly no danger to anyone, are in no position to rebel at the moment.
But this was never about public safety:
As life returns to a near normal in the nation’s capital, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was unable to say when the Emergencies Act powers his government gave itself to end protests will be revoked.
The government can, at any time, without warning and without consequence can freeze the account of a dissenter (and take that money if they wish. What will stop them?). They can increase or decrease this pressure only to prove their power. It is irrelevant for the poor sucker who finds him or herself in such a state because no bank (even one that has been downgraded - it must be all that freezing) as no bank will ever do business with him again, nor could he sell his house, get a business loan ... nothing.
That's the power of spite, the spite of a shallow nothing of a man so eager to one-up his disgusting dad.
Also:
Conservative MPs want their colleagues to use more restraint when sharing stories about frozen bank accounts due to the Emergencies Act.
In an email obtained exclusively by the National Post, MP Raquel Dancho and MP Dane Lloyd caution their colleagues not to share stories about constituents who have had their bank accounts frozen for supporting the trucker convoy without doing further checks.
“In this charged environment, it’s critical that we communicate in a coordinated and accurate fashion. Doing otherwise gives the Liberals a chance to distract from their power grab and attack us instead,” the MPs wrote to their caucus colleagues Tuesday night.
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Worthless, smug b@$#@rd:
F**k you. And your sanctimony. Seriously @JustinTrudeau https://t.co/xgfIVPc0yv
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) February 22, 2022
You will always be a coward, Justin, and the world knows it.
Oh, just pass it. You know you want to:
An independent Senate might prove to be a challenge for the Liberal government as it is asking the Upper Chamber to extend the Emergencies Act.
Marc Gold, the government’s representative in the Senate, faced a barrage of questions from Senators from all groups on Tuesday about whether the act was necessary now that the occupation outside Parliament and the border blockades have ended.
The House of Commons voted on Monday night to extend the emergency measures that have been in place since last week. The NDP voted with the Liberals, arguing that it was a confidence vote and now was not the time to plunge the country into an election.
But that trick likely won’t work with Senators, who are growing increasingly frustrated that they feel forced to rubber stamp government legislation.
Many of them wanted to know on what basis the government decided to invoke the Emergencies Act in the first place. That information has not been made available to Parliament, most notably ongoing investigations and intelligence information.
Also- you are part of the problem:
I was present during the negotiations around the federal Emergencies Act in 1987. As one of two full-time lawyers at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association at the time, I witnessed firsthand how Alan Borovoy, the CCLA’s then-general counsel, managed to shape the contours of this scheme. And I saw how the end product was a carefully calibrated piece of legislation with checks at every turn.
It’s why I believe the Emergencies Act was not a legally suitable instrument for removing unwelcome occupiers on Ottawa’s streets.
The objective of Brian Mulroney’s government in 1987 was to bring Quebec back into Canada’s constitutional fold by drawing sharp contrasts with that of his predecessor as prime minister, Pierre Trudeau. There would be two limbs to this strategy: first, having first ministers agree to a new constitutional settlement, represented by the Meech Lake Accord – a colossal failure, it turns out. The second prong was the repeal of the discredited War Measures Act and replacing it with an instrument better tuned to addressing emergencies such as the October Crisis of 1970. This turns out to have been the less troublesome prong.
It was in furtherance of replacing the War Measures Act that then-defence minister Perrin Beatty reached out to the CCLA to seek its input into draft replacement legislation. The CCLA’s principal aim was to curb what Mr. Borovoy called the “power-hoarding fallacy,” understanding that historically, Canadian governments have preferred to seize far more power than is reasonably needed in a crisis. The main thing was to avoid the blank cheque afforded to government under the War Measures Act. So in negotiations for a replacement act, the CCLA worked to restrict the government’s ability to manoeuvre in emergency situations to only what was absolutely necessary and to create safeguards to prevent the abuse of those fenced-in powers. ...
Justin Trudeau’s government has not provided compelling evidence that the convoy protest in Ottawa could not have been adequately dealt with under provincial authority, with or without federal help, as occurred at the Ambassador Bridge and at the border crossing at Coutts, Alta. Nor has it been convincingly shown that existing provincial or federal laws were not adequate to the task – enabling the co-ordination of police forces, the seizure of funds or the removal of occupiers, for example. It may be that the Ontario emergency law did not empower the province to “require” tow truck drivers to provide assistance, but that surely is a flimsy basis for declaring a national emergency.
In the case of a “public order emergency,” which was approved by a vote in Parliament on Feb. 21, there is the added requirement that the emergency must amount to a “threat to the security of Canada” as defined in the CSIS Act. The statutory definition of a “threat to the security of Canada” encompasses “acts of serious violence against persons or property for the purpose of achieving a political, religious or ideological objective within Canada.” While there is no question that myriad grievances were voiced in Ottawa, there is no evidence that “acts of serious violence” were perpetrated for the purpose of achieving the protesters’ objectives.
Taken together, these two definitions impose a heavy onus on government to justify the invocation of public order emergency powers – a burden that has not been convincingly met in the case of the Ottawa protests. It seems that, despite its creators’ best intentions, the carefully crafted Emergencies Act remains vulnerable to the urges of power hoarders.
Horrible people will be horrible:
Members of a parliamentary committee set up to scrutinize the Emergencies Act will have to take an oath of secrecy, but will not be given access to highly classified material, says the government's representative in the Senate.
It's as good as smearing or deflection.
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Peel Regional Police say they are investigating a “suspicious” fire that affected a Liberal MP office in Mississauga early Tuesday.
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Auditors have uncovered widespread irregularities in misuse of government-issue charge cards by Canadian diplomats abroad. Records at the Department of Foreign Affairs showed employees billed taxpayers for liquor, jewelry and “hospitality” expenses: “Documentation is required to verify compliance and identify misappropriation or fraud.”
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Voters in Burnaby South have sent a clear message to Jagmeet Singh over his support of Trudeau's emergency powers, plastering posters and a large tarp on his office to condemn his decision.
"NDP Betrayal on Family Day," reads a poster. "Jagmeet is Trudeau's Lap Dog," reads another. "Burnaby South Deserves Better!" And finally, "JAGMEET: TRUDEAU'S PUPPET," a spray-painted tarp reads.
Oh, you are shocked by what could happen to free speech and congress in this country even though Justin declared that China was his favourite country, Goebbels wanted to ban taunts against politicians, the fat affirmative-action hire wants Canadians to snitch on one another and books were burned at an Ontario school?
Really?:
What exactly did he mean by that usage of “protest”? It was unclear. The word’s been used vaguely and interchangeably with blockade, insurrection and siege the past few weeks by police and politicians.
And that’s a big problem. Whatever happens over the next few months (and possibly years), as the matters related to the convoy make their way through the courts, a chilling effect has now been placed on peaceful protest in Canada.
Also:
Proposed hate speech legislation would allow people to take others to court if they suspect that someone will post content deemed hateful online.
Bill C-36 states that "a person may, with the Attorney General's consent, lay an information before a provincial court judge if the person fears on reasonable grounds that another person will commit (a) an offence under section 318 [advocating genocide] or subsection 319" [inciting or promoting hate, promoting hatred].
No one will ever make fun of Justin publicly wetting his pants again!
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) said it has launched an internal conduct investigation after members of its force appear to have donated to the so-called Freedom Convoy.
The names were apparently released in a data leak, which revealed the names of those who contributed to the anti-mandate protesters via a GiveSendGo campaign.
They fit in with Justin's Canada:
A spokesperson for the Toronto District School Board says the students gave “the Heil Hitler salute” as a French teacher walked into a Grade 8 class at Valley Park Middle School on Thursday.
This Valley Park Middle School:
Islam understands the reality of Commissar Hall's "social justice": You give 'em an inch, and they'll take the rest. Following a 1988 cease-and-desist court judgment against the Lord's Prayer in public school, the Ontario Education Act forbids "any person to conduct religious exercises or to provide instruction that includes religious indoctrination in a particular religion or religious belief in a school." That seems clear enough. If somebody at Valley Park stood up in the cafeteria and started in with "Our Father, which art in Heaven", the full weight of the School Board would come crashing down on them. Fortunately, Valley Park is 80-90 per cent Muslim, so there are no takers for the Lord's Prayer. And, when it comes to the prayers they do want to say, the local Islamic enforcers go ahead secure in the knowledge that the diversity pansies aren't going to do a thing about it.
Nobody would know a thing about the "mosqueteria" story were it not for the blogger Blazing Cat Fur, whom I was honoured to say a word for in Ottawa a few months back. He broke this story and then saw it get picked up without credit by the Toronto media. He does that a lot. Currently, he's featuring the thoughts of Jawed Anwar, the editor of The Muslim, a publication for Greater Toronto Area Muslims, and of Dr Bilal Philips, a "Canadian religious scholar" who was born in Jamaica but grew up in Toronto and has many prestigious degrees not only from Saudi Arabia but also from the University of Wales, where he completed a PhD in "Islamic Theology". Dr Philips is in favour of death for homosexuals and, as one Canadian to another, Mr Anwar was anxious to explain to his readers that that's nothing to get alarmed about ...
This Justin:
During World War II, Justin’s père Pierre Trudeau was a “zombie,” one of those who declined to serve though of age and in good health. After the war, as David Frum recalled in 2011, Pierre Trudeau “traveled to Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union to participate in regime-sponsored propaganda activities. He wrote in praise of Mao’s murderous regime in China. Trudeau lavishly admired Fidel Castro, Julius Nyere, and other Third World dictators.” Trudeau also praised the Siberian city of Norilsk “unware or unconcerned that Norilsk had been built by slave labor.”
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The Canadian House of Commons erupted in shouts of condemnation Wednesday after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau replied to a Jewish member of Parliament by accusing members of the opposing Conservative Party of "standing with people who wave swastikas."
This Canada:
For the study, nearly 3,600 students in Grades 6 through 12 were surveyed both before and after a two-day virtual conference focusing on the Holocaust. Almost 80 per cent of the students were in Canada, while the rest were in U.S. classrooms. Just over six per cent identified as Jewish.
According to the study, nearly 33 per cent of the students felt the Holocaust was fabricated or exaggerated, or they were unsure if it even took place. Social media also wasn’t their only source of information.
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Banks have frozen nearly $8 million in accounts held by Freedom Convoy truckers, the Department of Finance disclosed yesterday. Authorities confirmed even small donations to the convoy, as little as $20, could trigger retribution if cash was contributed after cabinet declared the Freedom Convoy an illegal assembly on February 15: “It could be a savings account, a chequing account, a mortgage.”
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MPs on the Commons finance committee yesterday said they feared cabinet normalized financial retribution against political protesters. An Emergencies Act order allows banks to freeze personal and corporate accounts of Freedom Convoy protesters without a court order or advance notice to account holders: ‘It is like a no-fly list where someone is now asterisked for the rest of their life.’
Nazism is alive and well in a country that spent good men to fight it.
When do these get federal attention?:
But the Chinese government’s Overseas Chinese Affairs Office (OCAO) is involved in espionage that harms Canada’s interests, a Federal Court judge has affirmed in what appears to be a precedent-setting new ruling.
Beijing critics say the judgement — upholding an immigration officer’s decision on the issue as “reasonable” — represents a rare official rebuke of the office, now a bureau of a larger Communist Party department.
Despite its apparently longstanding efforts to influence and monitor Chinese Canadians, the agency has rarely been publicly called-out by authorities here, says Charles Burton, a former diplomat in Beijing and senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
“I’m thrilled about the ruling,” he said. “I hope it sets a terrific precedent.”
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Video released by the RCMP shows what officers describe as a group storming the site of a violent attack at a B.C. camp for pipeline workers last week.
Mounties published three video clips Tuesday in connection with the "acts of violence and damage done" at the work camp last week.
In a news release, the RCMP said the videos show a group of people, some of whom are "armed with axes" approaching the Coastal GasLink camp on Thursday.
Police describe what's shown in the video as the group storming the property and attacking a company vehicle. An employee was inside the truck, they said.
There are no truckers to blame this on:
Looming interest rate hikes have Canadians increasingly worried about making ends meet, according to an Ipsos survey commissioned for insolvency firm MNP Ltd.
The Bank of Canada sent strong signals last month that the days of rock-bottom interest rates tied to the COVID-19 pandemic were over. With Canada’s annual rate of inflation hitting 5.1 per cent last month — a more than 30-year high — most economists are expecting the central bank’s key overnight rate will rise steadily over the course of the year, starting as early as its next announcement on March 2.
The outlook is worrying many Canadians, who are already grappling with surging prices at gas pumps and grocery stores, according to the MNP survey.
Enjoy the poverty you voted for.
A coalition of Senate Republicans led by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) have introduced legislation that would end the Biden administration’s requirement that foreign truckers transporting goods be vaccinated to enter the United States.
In January, both the U.S. and Canadian federal governments instituted rules requiring that foreign truckers transporting goods over international lines be vaccinated.
Even though the Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s controversial private-sector vaccine mandate as unconstitutional in mid-January, the trucker mandate has remained in effect.
Scott’s Terminating Reckless and Unnecessary Checks Known to Erode Regular Shipping (TRUCKERS) Act—which is co-sponsored by Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Roger Marshall (R-Kansas), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)—would end the truckers’ mandate.
In a press release, proponents of the bill explained, “The TRUCKERS Act would exempt non-U.S. citizen commercial truck drivers traveling from Canada or Mexico who are seeking to temporarily enter the United States for business through a land port of entry from proof of vaccination requirements.”
Seeing as this flu shot is ineffective, one might as well.
It's amazing what some trucks can do.
A war that isn't really happening and that Canada can't participate in should distract the masses!:
Canada has announced new sanctions on Russia in response to the Kremlin’s deployment of forces into eastern Ukraine and its recognition of two separatist regions.
Say what you will about the autocrat, Putin, but at least he never ran away from truck-drivers.
Also - this:
Did you know that Eastern Canada buys over $550 million of Russian oil each year? https://t.co/q2kwcntjXw pic.twitter.com/2ScicoSmhZ
— Martin Pelletier (@MPelletierCIO) February 22, 2022
New Zealanders have had it with vaccine mandates:
What began as a spontaneous, hodgepodge attempt to ape the trucker protests seen in Canada has turned into something more organized as the crowd has swelled to around 1,500 people. Herb gardens have been planted, makeshift showers set up, and free hot meals are served three times a day by volunteers. There’s even a daycare tent.
The purpose of the protest has also grown, from discontent with the country’s controversial vaccine mandate into broader frustration with Jacinda Ardern’s government for bringing in some of the world’s strictest COVID measures.
“I know COVID is real and I’m not anti-vax,” said self-appointed “protest peacekeeper” Linzy Noble.
“But this new vaccine hasn’t been tested properly and that’s why my family isn’t OK with it. Lots of people here feel the same way. Does that make us bad people? Do we deserve to lose our careers and be treated like s–?”
The 57-year-old painting contractor said he and his seven children were out of work because of the vaccine mandate and that he was more worried about rising suicide rates, small businesses failing and the long-term impacts of restrictions on kids than he was about catching COVID.
“We want the mandates gone. They’re hurting innocent people and killing our businesses,” he added. “This isn’t New Zealand.”
Battle for Middle Earth!
It's like there is an Imperial theme to this blog post:
Most visitors who leave the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., via the ramp near the northwest tower don’t realize that evil incarnate is bearing down on them. No, it’s not the devil—it’s Darth Vader.
His stone head protrudes from the edge of a gable beneath the tower’s middle pinnacle, flanked on either side by two much taller pinnacles. The Star Wars despot is quite hard to see without binoculars, and he's also not the sole sculpture on his gable: The other side hosts a raccoon.
Only sculptures that spout water are considered true gargoyles, which were originally conceived as a decorative way to drain rainwater from rooftops without sending it straight down the sides of the building. Since Darth Vader’s masked mouth has no spout, he’s technically just a grotesque, not a gargoyle.
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