Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Mid-Week Post


 

Your mid-week opportunity to stop and smell the flowers ... 


You can't quash a popular grassroots movement by telling the truth:

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Methinks that Marco will find himself under the bus when things go pear-shaped. 


Also in today's "the Emergencies Act was invoked to get Justin out from under the bed where he was hiding" news:

Invocation of the Emergencies Act to end the truckers’ protest in Ottawa shocked civil libertarians here and around the world. A proposed class action started by Ottawa residents Zexi Li and Geoffrey Devaney and the Happy Goat Coffee Company may be just as disturbing.

(Sidebar: this Zexi Lee.) 

All class actions, in which plaintiffs make a civil claim for damages on behalf of a larger group, must be court-certified to go ahead; this one isn’t yet. Even so, in preliminary hearings beginning February 17, the plaintiffs got an extraordinary “Mareva” injunction, named after a ship-owning company that long ago chased after the charter fee for a ship, then far away on its contracted journey. It is a court order not to move or use identified assets such as money or ships or other property pending trial. Cryptocurrency donations to the Freedom Convoy were frozen — a private seizure, not made under the Emergencies Act.

Mareva orders are typically used against non-residents with few assets at risk in the jurisdiction. They are a drastic, “extraordinary”, remedy designed for emergencies. Yet this one came easily, after an ex parte hearing in which the defendants weren’t present or even notified of the risks they faced.

Normally, a Mareva injunction requires plaintiffs to give undertakings to the court to pay damages if the injunction proves to be wrongly issued on the plaintiff’s one-sided representations. But Justice Calum MacLeod of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice waived the undertaking, citing cases with a human rights or public interest dimension. In this case, however, the human rights and public interest dimensions should protect the defendant-protestors, not the plaintiffs, and require an undertaking to be given, not waived.

The lawsuit claims over $300 million for private and public nuisance and punitive damages. This seems like a figure meant more to intimidate than compensate, especially given that businesses affected by the protest have already received federal government compensation of $20 million. The truckers were opposed to lockdowns, after all. If anyone should be sued for economic losses from lockdowns, it’s the governments imposing them, not people opposing them.

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Conservative MP Dane Lloyd grilled an activist from the far-left Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) before a parliamentary committee this week, accusing the group of bias and for spreading misinformation during the Freedom Convoy.

CAHN executive director Evan Balgord admitted to the Commons public safety committee on Tuesday that his so-called research organization did not in fact verify a photo of an anti-Semitic flyer allegedly found at the site of the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa before CAHN chair Bernei Farber pinned it on convoy protesters.


(Sidebar: this CAHN.) 

The admission came during Lloyd’s questioning of Balgord.

“During the convoy protests your (chair) Bernie Farber posted a tweet with a photo of a vile antisemitic flyer and claimed that this was a picture of a flyer being circulated in Ottawa among the trucker protesters, but upon further examination it was proven that this exact same photo was taken in Miami, Florida weeks before the protest ever began,” said Lloyd. 

“Can you explain why the (chair) of your organization was claiming that this photo was being circulated at the protest when in fact it was a photo from a completely different country weeks before the protest?” 

Balgord explained that “(w)hat had occurred was that somebody had reached out to us in Ottawa who said that they saw that flyer there, and they provided the photo at that moment.

“Bernie was not aware that the photo itself was taken from an American source,” he continued. “What the person was trying to communicate to our organization was that they saw the same flyer but they had attached the photo from the states so it was our error in not communicating that more clearly.”

“So you have no evidence other than hearsay that that flyer was actually being distributed in Ottawa? Correct?” asked Lloyd. 

“That is correct. We took the report from somebody on the ground, and our chair put the information out there,” replied Balgord.

Quillette editor Jonathan Kay was the first to debunk Farber’s Feb. 6 tweet that claimed that the photo of the flyer was “taken by a friend in Ottawa at the Occupation. Apparently in plain sight.” 

Farber eventually deleted the tweet after its true source was discovered. 

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This week Dr. Lewis in another interview had to push back on CTV Question Period host Evan Solomon who, in a similar fashion to Kapelos, tried to take a swipe at her for taking a perfectly reasonable position on an issue; this time on the Freedom Convoy. 

Solomon noted that Dr. Lewis had supported the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa and using the critical statements of CPC leadership candidate Jean Charest against the convo asked her if it was a mistake to support the movement.

Dr. Lewis explained that the protest outside of Parliament was fully peaceful and that she was proud to be the first of the leadership candidates to support the truckers’ push to end the mandates. She also added that she was always against the border blockades that were not a part of the official Freedom Convoy 2022 protest.

Solomon then tried to imply that in some backward way Dr. Lewis indirectly supported people trying to overthrow the Canadian government. ...

Dr. Lewis countered Solomon’s absurd assertion of wrongdoing, pointing out that Solomon knows he is pushing a falsehood, seeing as not one person associated with the convoy protest has been charged with the crime of sedition.  

Not that the CBC cares what Dr. Lewis thinks (I expect racist attacks against her any moment now).

Even if the convoy were to overthrow the fascist government of China's North American vassal state, would we be worse off?

People were arrested without cause. Bank accounts were frozen. Paid agents of the government spread malicious lies to discredit a popular yet embarrassing movement. Members of Parliament actually join in on this parade of lies. Does anyone want to talk about foreign involvement? Let's talk about American anti-oil groups that have quashed our energy sector and Chinese interference even in this debacle.

Sedition is only a matter of who prints the history books. 

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From some of our best political actuarials it has been estimated that the imminent danger of violent overthrow of the Canadian government by the truckers’ protest was somewhere between a mass outbreak of veganism in Newfoundland (apocalyptically unlikely) and Canada meeting its climate goals in 2030.

 


For additional burn:

Tamara Lich has been awarded The George Jonas Freedom Award for her part in organizing the Freedom Convoy truckers protest that drew international attention for occupying Ottawa’s downtown core in February.

 

 

It was never about a virus:

Former White House COVID adviser and assistant professor at McMaster University Dr. Paul Alexander says several top officials, including senior doctors and CEOs, were issued fake vaccine cards after refusing mRNA vaccines.

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A Conservative MP says the president of the Canadian arm of AstraZeneca couldn’t answer questions at a parliamentary committee as to why the company asked for clauses to be shielded from liability for vaccine-related injuries.

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Three days after Beijing officially acknowledged a cluster of an unknown pneumonia disease in 2020, then-head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Dr. Robert Redfield invited his Chinese counterpart, George Gao, for a call.

“I’ve been trying to reach you and will try again in a few hours,” he wrote, according to emails sent on Jan. 3, 2020, and obtained by The Epoch Times.

This would be the first of a series of efforts from the United States to engage with China and offer assistance over the next few weeks.

“Unfortunately, that assistance wasn’t accepted by the Chinese government,” Redfield said. “I think it could have made a big difference.”

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Federal managers suspended without pay more than 2,500 employees for declining to show proof of vaccination, records show. Employees stripped of salary and benefits included 66 at the Department of Health and Public Health Agency that spoke against coercive vaccination: “The federal government violated human rights knowing few people can afford to sue.”


 

I'm sure it's nothing to be concerned about:

Canada is facing a record wave of retirements as one in five Canadians near the end of their working lives in a country already grappling with labour shortages and historically low unemployment.

A Statistics Canada study based on the 2021 census finds that Canada’s working population has never been older. Almost 22 per cent of the population is between 55 and 64, an all-time high in the history of the census.

Canadians aged 15 to 64 drive the economy and at 64.8 per cent this age group still represents one of the highest in the G7. Less than 60 per cent of Japan’s population, for example, is within working age.

But things are about to change as the last of the baby boomers leave the workplace and fewer young people step up to replace them. By 2051, the proportion of working age Canadians is expected to fall to 60 per cent.

“An increase in immigration — even a large one — would not significantly curb this projected drop,” said Statistics Canada.

 

Does one mean to say that we cannot educate and train people in Canada?

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“The new reality with which economies must reckon is higher inflation and slowing economic growth. And a big reason for the current bout of stagflation is a series of supply shocks that have curtailed output and raised costs. The covid pandemic forced many sectors to lock down, disrupted global supplies and produced a persistent reduction in labour supply, especially in the US. Then came Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has driven up various prices. China’s draconian lockdown in major economic hubs has squeezed supplies further. But even without these short-term factors, the medium-term outlook would be darkening. There are many reasons to worry about stagflationary conditions haunting the global economy with higher prices, lower growth, and possible recessions in many places.” ...

Inflation is when the growth of the money supply exceeds the growth of goods and services. Governments didn’t just print too much money, they crushed the production and delivery of goods and services.

 

 

But at least they saved themselves:

The Canadian military had only two aircraft in Kabul when the city fell to the Taliban last August 15, says Immigration Minister Sean Fraser. Canadian diplomats commandeered one of them to flee the city leaving behind thousands of Canadian citizens and Afghan allies: ‘The U.S. had 110 planes on site; Canada had two and one of them wasn’t in great working order.’

 

How typically Canadian.



There is no dignity in forcing medical personnel to poison one to death:

Police in Abbotsford, B.C. confirm they are investigating the medically-assisted death of a 61-year-old woman whose daughters say should not have been approved for the procedure based on the state of her mental health at the time.

 

 

A plea deal for a loony:

United States prosecutors say they’ve offered a plea deal to the Montreal-area woman accused of mailing poison to former president Donald Trump.

The deal would include the three charges Pascale Ferrier faces related to a letter containing ricin that was mailed to the White House in 2020, as well as 16 federal charges she faces in Texas, where she is alleged to have mailed poison to several law enforcement officials.

 

 

Remember - carbon is a pollutant.

Or so one is told:

Millions of litres of sewage has leaked into the Assiniboine River, and more sewage may continue to be released into it.

Alexis Kanu, the executive director of the Lake Winnipeg Foundation, is concerned after the City of Winnipeg let millions of litres of combined sewage flow into the Assiniboine River.

‘’I’m disgusted,” Kanu said in an interview with CTV News. “Just because this happens so frequently doesn’t mean we should be used to it; doesn’t mean we should accept it.”

The City of Winnipeg’s Water and Waste Department’s acting director Cynthia Wiebe said that while working on a delayed project replacing an interceptor siphon on Portage Avenue snow began melting and the temporary sewage pumps exceeded capacity.

 

 

 

(Merci)


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