Five more days until Halloween ...
When a peaceful grassroots movement borne of bad governmental policy can't be painted as a foreign-funded aberration, a country's puppet-head can't hide his cowardice and his apparatus proves easily overwhelmed but still willing to swing a baton, one can't help but conclude that the government used every means at its disposal to shut everything down at any cost to avoid embarrassment.
Oh, this again:
Unnamed foreign “adversaries” may have leveraged the Canadian “freedom movement” protests to advance their own interests, a newly-disclosed intelligence report suggest.
According to previously secret assessments by the Ontario Provincial Police’s (OPP) intelligence branch, the “available information” on Feb. 19 suggested that foreign actors may have pushed support for the movement, which fueled the convoy blockades in Ottawa and across the country, “to protect or enhance their own strategic economic and political interests.”
The CBC Ombudsman ruled that he was “disappointed that programmers” linked Russia to the Freedom Convoy during a Power & Politics segment with Liberal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino in January.
The Oct. 6 review by Ombudsman Jack Nagler followed a complaint against CBC news anchor Nil Koksal by viewer James Sali. During that episode, Koksal asked without any substantiating evidence whether “Russian actors” were involved in organizing the convoy.
How "un-Canadian"!
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The incident commander in charge of policing the protests in Ottawa last winter allowed protesters to park in front of Parliament Hill because he thought that would protect the rest of the city from disruptions, documents tabled with the Emergencies Act inquiry this morning say.
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In a rare show of parliamentary unity, members of all parties on the Commons public safety and national security committee approved a motion requiring an “immediate response” from the OPP regarding an apparent “contradiction” between what its commissioner told the committee in March about the protests and what its head of intelligence said to the Emergencies Act inquiry last week.
What about those censored documents?
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**Police didn’t ask for it, and a back channel for a negotiated deal was quashed by the Trudeau Government? If so, basically it lied to Canadians about the need to invoke the Act. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/cZGhllFuue
— Norman Spector (@nspector4) October 26, 2022
Senior officials including police and a deputy minister of public safety drafted a memo to end the Freedom Convoy with the stroke of a pen, in inquiry was told yesterday. A convoy lawyer said the proposal was before cabinet when it opted instead to invoke the Emergencies Act: “The deal would be: Leave the protest and denounce unlawful activity and you will be heard.”
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Ultimately, Stewart told the OPP’s Marcel Beaudin, who was overseeing the Provincial Liaison Team (PLT) in charge of negotiations with protesters, he could not secure a commitment from the government to follow through and meet with them to hear their demands.
Speaking at the POEC, Beaudin said he agreed with former Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly’s controversial stance on Feb. 2 that there might not have been a “police solution” to the end of the Freedom Convoy that disrupted Ottawa’s downtown core for three weeks.
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But the then-Ottawa Police Service (OPS) superintendent Robert Bernier stopped short of saying the act’s powers weren’t useful or necessary to police during his testimony to the Public Order Emergencies Commission Wednesday. ... OPS Freedom Convoy “event commander” Supt. Bernier told the commission that he had received full sign off on a plan to clear the capital’s streets on Feb. 13, one day before the federal government invoked the act.
Bernier said he had no idea that was coming at the time, but he was already “satisfied” that he had all the legal power he needed to go forward with his plan.
“The plan that I was developing was based on existing authorities, whether it be under the provincial, federal or common law authority to act,” Bernier told the commission.
But he would not tell the commission that the act was unnecessary, because he ultimately “did not get to do the operation without it.” But he noted that OPS had exercised similar powers without the Emergencies Act before and after the Freedom Convoy without issue.
Still a company man, eh, Bernier?
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Click on the squares that show lawlessness:
February 14 photographs by the mayor’s office showing quiet downtown Ottawa streets have been submitted in evidence at the Freedom Convoy inquiry. The photos were taken hours before cabinet invoked the Emergencies Act on claims that streets were “completely lawless.”
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No one asked why these businesses were struggling before the truck showed up but I digress:
Records at the Public Order Emergency Commission show Ottawa business groups lobbied cabinet for subsidies with inflated claims of damage from Freedom Convoy protests. A $20 million federal compensation fund later saw a third of the money unclaimed: “Daily I am getting stories of fear and desperation.”
It's not like he's wasting HIS FAMILY'S money:
It’s staggering enough that hotel rooms for Canada’s official delegation to Queen Elizabeth’s funeral cost as much as some Canadians, many Canadians, paid for their homes — $397,000 total. That someone was staying in a $6,000-a-night hotel room is mind-boggling.
Government documents reveal that the Canadian government booked the lavish River Suite at a cool $6,000 per night, among many other rooms. The Corinthia Hotel notes on its website that guests receive butler service while staying in the room.
This Justin:
The House of Commons is currently voting on a motion to re-affirm it's recognition of the #UyghurGenocide and to call for special immigration measures to assist Uyghur refugees. The Liberal cabinet fled the chamber - they are abstaining again. Cowards. #cdnpoli #Uyghur
— Garnett Genuis (@GarnettGenuis) October 25, 2022
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"I am a Canadian, a free Canadian; free to worship as I see fit, free to stand up for what I believe is right," Pawlowski said. "Should we throw all of that out and move to Saudi Arabia? I think Justin Trudeau would fit in perfectly over there. Or maybe North Korea would be better for him. He loves dictatorship. I'll buy him a ticket. Go, please enjoy it."
It's not enough to be chief censor. One must be the head of the Stasi and a supporter of rancid bigotry, too:
Parks Canada wardens will gain extraordinary police powers under an obscure clause of a bill tabled by Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault. Wardens would be permitted to “enter any place” without a warrant: “What changes do you think this will make?”
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Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez appeared before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage on Friday for one hour and walked away with a serious credibility problem. Rodriguez has already been repeatedly contradicted on Bill C-11, claiming that the bill doesn’t cover user content or algorithms. On both issues, the CRTC Chair (and virtually every expert) say otherwise. Friday’s hearing focused on two issues – the Laith Marouf/CMAC issue of government funding for an anti-semite and Bill C-18, the Online News Act. Given his responses to MP questions, Rodriguez now faces credibility questions on both. This post will focus on his responses to questions about Canadian Heritage funding for CMAC/Marouf and a second post tomorrow will examine his misleading statements on the bill.
The inclusion of questions on Canadian Heritage funding an anti-semite as part of its anti-hate program appeared to take Rodriguez by surprise. The questions began with Conservative MP Rachael Thomas, who noted Rodriguez’s silence this summer and pressed him on whether he would come to committee to answer questions. ...When he finally did speak, Rodriguez did not issue a release or post anything to his website, Twitter or anywhere else. Instead, nearly two weeks after the initial media coverage, he issued a private statement to Canadian Press. That full statement has never been released publicly. When I first called out his silence, his Parliamentary Secretary Chris Bittle suggested I was racist and called me a bully in the press. After the private statement, I asked Canadian Heritage for a copy of the statement. They told me to ask his press secretary. Repeated requests were ignored. The truth is that Rodriguez was noticeably silent for weeks (the Canadian Press story noted that he was “breaking his silence”) and never publicly released his statement. That remains true today.
This is the person in charge of controlling what we see and hear from now on.
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Bill #C11 is bad legislation. It’s paternalistic, will blunt the success of 🇨🇦 creators & control what you consume online; all while protecting the status quo where gatekeepers & corporate broadcasters cash in while creators have to come with cap in hand.https://t.co/daJaPoeeIq
— Senator Leo Housakos (@SenatorHousakos) October 25, 2022
You lost at the Plains of Abraham. Get over it:
Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet yesterday said he didn’t mean it when he swore an MP’s oath of true allegiance to the Crown. Liberal MPs immediately demanded Blanchet be censured under an 1867 House rule that has never been enforced: “The Speaker should look into the appropriateness of this Member’s continuing to sit in this place.”
Two Canadians captured in Syria during the fight against the so-called Islamic State were arrested by the RCMP on Tuesday night after their flight landed in Montreal.
The women are the first the Canadian government has brought home from detention camps in northeast Syria for foreign ISIS members and their families.
Oumaimi Chouay, 27, was charged with four terrorism offences, including leaving Canada to participate in the activity of a terrorist group.
She is the first Canadian captured by U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters to face charges in Canada. She was to appear in court Wednesday in Montreal.
People like them should be left in a sand heap to rot.
It's things like this that make people want to home-school:
The toolkit repeatedly asserts that Canada — and Canadian schools in particular — are plagued by a worrying and dangerous rise in “hate-promoting social movements.”
“Because schools are hubs of our communities, they have become battlegrounds for hate-motivated organizing,” it reads.
What the report does not do is provide much context as to the actual size of the Canadian hate movement. It reports that an “alarming number” of Canadians attended 2017 Charlottesville, even though only two Canadians are known to have attended. It says that Canada has a “massive problem” with hate because Canadian users are the third largest nationality on the fascist web forum Iron March (behind the U.K. and the U.S.). What it doesn’t mention is that the total number of Canadian accounts on Iron March is just 88.
This isn’t entirely off-brand for the Canadian Anti-Hate Network. On its website, the group has a bit of a habit of citing threats from “hate groups” that are occasionally just a poorly constructed social media page with a handful of followers. ...
“Canada’s flag until 1965 has been appropriated by white supremacists,” reads the toolkit. And the materials are correct that the flag has been taken up by fringe Canadian white supremacist groups, who have adopted the banner as a symbol of a Canada that, in their view, predates mass non-white immigration. But it’s still the flag that was flown by Canada when it was battling literal Nazis in the Second World War.
This much is acknowledged by the toolkit, but it still instructs educators to stamp out classroom use of the flag. “A teenager with a Red Ensign profile picture merits a second look because of its prevalence in young white supremacist groups,” it reads.
Explosive testimony Monday before the Commons standing committee on veterans affairs by a retired member of the Canadian Armed Forces suggests a combat veteran was offered MAiD twice — despite repeatedly dismissing medically assisted suicide — and was told that Veterans Affairs had carried out the service for others.
The committee also heard that the Veterans Affairs caseworker suggested medical assistance in dying was a better option than “blowing your brains out.”
“He was told in his original phone call where he was offered MAiD, ‘we can do it for you, because we’ve done it before, and one veteran that we’ve done this for, after we completed MAiD, after we killed him, we now have supports in place for his wife and two children,'” Mark Meincke told the committee.
“That is what he told me transpired.”
Meincke is a retired Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry member who served as a UN Peacekeeper in Croatia during Operation HARMONY — and suffered from undiagnosed PTSD for over two decades after witnessing the horrors of genocide.
He’s also the host of Operation Tango Romeo, a podcast helping other veterans recover from service-induced trauma and PTSD.
The Commons science committee yesterday recommended taxpayers consider covering tuition for foreign students. Foreigners currently pay full cost for college and university education: “Canada must attract and retain individuals who come to study and conduct research.”
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