They emerged from the sewer, put on a fresh tie in the Kremlin and ended up here:
Preventing the unvaccinated from taking long-distance public transportation was used as a means to increase vaccination rates, Transport Canada internal documents reveal.
A briefing presented to Transport Minister Omar Alghabra on Oct. 2, 2021, regarding the implementation of the mandate said the strict requirement for vaccination without the alternative to present a negative COVID-19 test would create a “very strong impetus to drive vaccination.”
A few weeks later, Alghabra signed a memorandum prepared by Transport Canada’s Safety and Security Group authorizing a new interim order that put into force the mandate.
The memo signed on Oct. 29 says a mandate was needed to protect the safety of the transportation system and the “passengers needed to realize recovery.”
“An indirect benefit is that it should act as a catalyst to increase Canada’s overall vaccination rate.”
These documents were filed in federal court and relate to the four lawsuits challenging the travel mandate.
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A senior official at Transport Canada expressed doubts about the rationale for a vaccine mandate for transportation 13 days before it came into force, and had asked Health Canada for more data to justify the policy, internal emails reveal.
“To the extent that updated data exist or that there is clearer evidence of the safety benefit of vaccination on the users or other stakeholders of the transportation system, it would be helpful to assist Transport Canada [in] supporting its measures,” wrote Aaron McCrorie in an Oct. 18, 2021, email to Dawn Lumley-Myllari.
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Four days before the federal government announced it had invoked the Emergencies Act to clear convoy protests in February, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet were informed that the lead negotiator of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) said the leaders of the protest could be potentially persuaded to leave in exchange for a commitment from the government to “register their message,” an internal government document shows.
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The night before the Liberal government invoked the Emergencies Act to deal with so-called “Freedom Convoy” protesters, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s national security adviser told the federal cabinet that “there was potential for a breakthrough” with the occupation around Parliament Hill, newly released documents show.
The revelation comes from meeting minutes and agendas submitted last week in Federal Court, where civil liberties groups are challenging how the federal government used the law — which had never been invoked before — to give police and banks extraordinary powers to quash protests against COVID-19 health measures that blocked border crossings and paralyzed downtown Ottawa this winter.The documents show that on Feb. 13, National Security and Intelligence Adviser Jody Thomas — a senior civil servant in the department that supports the prime minister — updated the cabinet on the situation.Minutes from the meeting say Thomas noted how the most significant border blockade — at the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ont. — had been lifted, but several other crossings were still blocked. Thomas also said Canada’s spy agency had reported the “threat picture” from violent extremism remained “stable and unchanged.”Thomas went on to say “that law enforcement gains have been important and that there was potential for a breakthrough in Ottawa,” according to the minutes.The rest of the minutes from the cabinet meeting are blacked out.
Blacked out you, say?
Justin is a piece of crap.
Two days before the Emergencies Act was invoked last February to quell anti-government convoy protests, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned cabinet ministers that international partners were concerned Canada wasn’t able to control the situation.
The warning is contained in heavily redacted summaries of three meetings of the government’s incident response group and one meeting of the full cabinet, which were released through the Federal Court as part of a challenge of the government’s use of the act.
Trudeau’s comments on Feb. 12 came the day after he spoke with U.S. President Joe Biden. According to the White House, Biden expressed concerns about the impact of blockades at border crossings, including the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ont., on U.S. companies and workers.
“The prime minister promised quick action in enforcing the law and the president thanked him for the steps he and other Canadian authorities are taking,” the White House said on Feb. 11.
At the time, Trudeau was speaking to a number of world leaders about the buildup of Russian military forces near the border with Ukraine. In the first 12 days of February, he spoke with leaders from the EU, Norway, Poland, Japan, Germany and Ukraine. Readouts from the Prime Minister’s Office for those meetings do not mention the ongoing protests.
But that was top of mind for cabinet, the documents show. The weekend before invoking the Emergencies Act, the government was busy weighing the consequences of using the legislation while also assessing other tools.
Drag the liar into open court, on record and live-stream his blithering responses to every nation on Earth:
Shane Marshall, 26, of St. Thomas, is charged with assault with a weapon after gravel was thrown at Trudeau while he was boarding a bus following a campaign stop outside the London Brewing Co-op on Sept. 6, 2021.
Video of the incident shows the prime minister turn around abruptly as he appears to be struck with small rocks before boarding the bus while protesters – many of them holding People’s Party of Canada signs – shout obscenities at him.
Lawyer Phillip Millar, who is representing Marshall, said he’s preparing to subpoena Trudeau on Thursday, alleging the prime minister provided contradictory accounts of whether he was struck by stones.
“I have every intention of subpoenaing Justin Trudeau, challenging him on the inconsistencies of his statements and alleging that he was provoking the protesters,” Millar said Monday.
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Freedom Convoy judicial inquiry hearings will open September 19, the same day the Commons returns from summer recess. The chief of the Public Order Emergency Commission yesterday said cabinet must be held to account for its claim a truckers’ protest outside Parliament represented a national emergency: “Hearings are vitally important.”
His name is Rumpelstiltskin:
The federal government was made aware in the spring that airport security staffing across Canada was short by 25 percent, according to a briefing note.
The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) sent the note to Transport Minister Omar Alghabra on May 13 to inform him that its staff numbers were down by almost a quarter due to pandemic layoffs, according to the document obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.
There are two ways to look at this - the government will naturally screw this program up and at great cost, and the audacity possessed to control people will only end badly, as the fall of the Iron Curtain has shown us:
A federal government report says the next steps to advance the Liberals’ digital infrastructure is to introduce a “Digital Identity Program.”
The announcement was revealed in a government report published Aug. 4 titled Canada’s Digital Ambition 2022, as first reported by True North.
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