Your middle-of-the-week outburst of truth ...
The federal Liberal government and most of the provinces could issue decrees, impose drastic penalties — fines or job loss — shut down some businesses, leave others (mainly very big ones) open, prescribe mandates, forbid even domestic gatherings, interfere with religious observances, then turn around on a dime — and mostly Canadians took it all too complacently.
There were a few ardent civil libertarians, and some brave protesters, but they were quickly either barred or banned, or branded, rather cruelly, as “anti-vaxers” — in essence snarled at by the authorities, and also in many cases reviled by a supine media, a surprising number of whom were all-too-onside with whatever was declared from the Steps of the Cottage by the presiding master of Canadian politics, Justin Trudeau.
The federal government in particular quickly developed a compulsive taste for operating without serious challenge. ...
The only really serious protest came with the truckers’ convoy. This was a justified expression of political challenge. It was based on legitimate grounds. It was serious — by which I mean it was not the standard, rote performative “protests” we get from the protest professionals, especially the juvenile climate crowd.
These were typical blue-collar folk, doing real work for a living, and they put in a real effort. The trip to Ottawa was no holiday. And they certainly didn’t lower themselves to some infantile and degrading stunt like gluing themselves to a famous painting, or scrambling up the Peace Tower for a publicity arrest when they came down.
They went all the way to Ottawa to give political expression to their stand on COVID mandates. And where else should they have gone? Ottawa, as so many seem willing to forget, is the centre and site of what is left of Canadian democracy — the location of the House of Commons. They went with the wish and the hope to have a meeting with perhaps the prime minister, certainly with relevant cabinet ministers.
Trudeau, by this time accustomed to ruling by fiat, denounced the protesters even before they arrived. And not once did he offer an opportunity for a meeting, or delegate ministers to have a discussion. The PM in fact treated them more like invaders than a representative group of Canadian citizens with relevant and pressing concerns.
Which brings me right to the point of the Emergencies Act.
What efforts, what actions, did the government take before proceeding to that draconian, unprecedented measure? None. None at all.
Did they meet? No. Did they negotiate? No. Did they send mediators? No. Did they call Parliament in to debate the protest? No.
They did nothing. Outside of berating the protest in the most vivid terms, they did absolutely nothing!
There was no gradual buildup to the civil-rights-gutting decree. From zero to 60 at a snap of the fingers. They went from perfect immobility to full political rage. From zero communication to the Emergencies Act.
There was no particular incident, no surge of any violence, no wild outbreak on the Hill, no — despite the false rumours — foreign actors, no threatening terrorists that could be pointed to as precipitating the need for emergency powers.
One day Canada was a country at rest. The next day “there’s a movement to overthrow the government.” It was a pure concoction of political convenience, and by no means incidentally, a huge gesture of contempt for those in disagreement with the government.
The Emergencies Act came, like a meteor, flashing out of nowhere, with no specified circumstance to justify it, no convening of Parliament before so fierce a legislative response, and absolutely no communication with the protest or its leaders.
A drastic law killed a legitimate and non-violent protest. Curiously some looked at this with — what’s the phrase — a “level of admiration.”
When all the fight has been bred out of one, dictatorship looks awfully cozy.
Thus is the state of Canada.
Why, it's like everyone has something to hide:
A fishing expedition,” “little foundation in evidence,” “purely speculative” and a “very significant distraction.”
Those are some of the words used by Emergency Act inquiry commissioner Paul Rouleau in a ruling that sternly dismissed a series of requests by a lawyer for Freedom Convoy organizers relating to government document redactions, a truck licence plate and suggestions that a public affairs firm executive was a Liberal “provocateur” who carried a Nazi flag at the protests in Ottawa.
**
Counsel for the public affairs executive accused by a Freedom Convoy lawyer of carrying a Nazi flag during the Ottawa protests has strenuously denied the claim, saying he hasn’t been in Ottawa in years, and has threatened to sue for libel if the statements are not retracted.
In a letter sent Tuesday, counsel for public affairs firm Enterprise Canada denied claims by Freedom Corp lawyer Brendan Miller that Enterprise executive Brian Fox was carrying the flag at the Freedom Convoy protest as part of a false-flag effort to discredit the protestors and help the Liberal government, which opposed the protest.
**
"Sloly is incompetent!" claims incompetent man:
As the “Freedom Convoy” dug in its heels in downtown Ottawa earlier this year, Justice Minister David Lametti said in a text that then-Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly was “incompetent,” internal texts made public during the Emergencies Act inquiry revealed.**
The texts also showed that discussions about the possibility that the Emergencies Act could be invoked began as early as Jan. 30, which was the Sunday of the first weekend the protest had arrived in Ottawa.
“Do we have a contingency for these trucks to be removed tomorrow or Tuesday? (if they were black or indigenous…),” Lametti wrote in a text sent to his chief of staff, Alex Steinhouse, on Jan. 30.
Lametti said the latter part of the text was a reference to “legitimate criticism” that was levied against police beginning that first weekend, including accusations that police were treating the convoy differently than they would have treated Black or Indigenous blockades.
The Nazis also collected records:
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s office secretly distributed a blacklist of 201 trucking companies that participated in the Freedom Convoy, records show. Staff included a blacklist of 45 firms that received the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy: “Please find attached an excel sheet detailing which companies whose trucks are participating in Ottawa convoy.”
The new Goebbels pleads for the censorship bill to be passed, though he must know that the senators will pass this:
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez yesterday pleaded with senators to quickly pass Canada’s first bill to regulate legal internet content. Members of the Senate transport and communications committee warned of likely amendments to Bill C-11: ““I am asking you, please, Senators.”
A Manitoba man who armed himself and rammed a gate at Rideau Hall to confront Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been granted day parole.
The Parole Board of Canada denied full parole for Corey Hurren but approved for him to spend six months living in an undisclosed halfway house on day parole.
We all know why China had a free hand in this country:
Canada’s spy agency has failed to keep up with today’s national security threats, hampered by governing legislation that’s barely changed since the days of fax machines and phone books, says an internal briefing document.
It's bad enough that one has to subsidise the "canned hunt" that is abortion because selfish people would rather watch Netflix than help with homework. Why should taxpayers further subsidise other destructive behaviours?
Why doesn't Carolyn Bennett let these junkies into her home?:
Mental Health and Addictions Minister Caroyln Bennett says Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's comments about safe drug consumptions sites are "irresponsible" and "misguided."
Her comments come after Poilievre released a video Sunday titled “Everything feels broken,” in which he says safe consumptions programs need to be defunded, because they lead to “massive” increases in overdoses and crimes.
“The addictions that we see, that have terrorized these people and our communities, they are the result of a failed experiment,” Poilievre says in the five-minute video, filmed in front of a tent city in Vancouver. “This is a deliberate policy by woke Liberal and NDP governments to provide taxpayer funded drugs, flood our streets with easy access to these poisons.”
This infant survived a brush with death. The Quebec College of Physicians must be mortified:
Montreal police are seeking the public’s help in a brazen hit-and-run case to find the driver of a car who struck a baby stroller and dragged it through an intersection in Outremont last week.
The dramatic incident captured on surveillance footage shows a black car rolling through the corner of Bloomfield and Lajoie avenues while a woman pushes a baby carriage. The car, without stopping, slams into the stroller snatching it out of the woman’s hands and continues to drive off heading in the direction of Van Horne Avenue in broad daylight.
“The vehicle hit the carrier, dragged it for probably a couple of metres before leaving the scene, leaving the baby behind,” police spokesperson Raphaël Bergeron said in an interview Wednesday.
The one-year-old in the stroller was not injured in the incident.
Why bother? This country is a Nazi punch-line:
Religious leaders across Canada are decrying a new federal law that will allow mentally ill Canadians to request Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) for mental illness.
"Next March, unless the government is forced to change its mind, persons suffering solely from mental illness will become eligible for euthanasia," Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller said during a homily last month, according to a report from the B.C. Catholic.
The comments come just months ahead of a deadline to expand MAID in Canada to those with mental illness, with critics calling on the government to put a halt to the plan until its ramifications can be more deeply studied.
Miller, who has called the law "morally depraved," argued that Canada has moved too quickly to expand access to MAID in recent years.
It's just money:
Federal repeal of interest on Canada Student Loans will cost more than $556 million a year in perpetuity, the Senate national finance committee was told yesterday. The measure takes effect next April 1: “The investment is $2.7 billion over five years but then there is an ongoing cost as well of $556.3 million per year.”
If unions cared, they would demand that their favourite federal parties stop trading with China. They would also stop being shiftless and greedy themselves:
Canadian labour groups have filed a complaint with a federal corporate watchdog saying Canadian Tire failed to ensure workers in its South Asian supplier factories are paid a living wage.
Are there "root causes", Justin?:
Two blasts went off near bus stops in Jerusalem at the height of morning rush hour on Wednesday, killing a Canadian-Israeli teenager and injuring at least 18, in what police said were attacks by Palestinians.
The first explosion occurred near a typically crowded bus stop on the edge of the city. The second went off about half an hour later in Ramot, a settlement in the city's north. Police said one person died from their wounds and at least three were seriously wounded in the blasts.
The victim was identified as Aryeh Schupak, 15, who was heading to a Jewish seminary when the blast went off, according to a notice announcing his death. Schupak was also a Canadian citizen, according to Canada's Ambassador to Israel Lisa Stadelbauer.
If we had a free and independent press, this would happen to Theresa Tam:
Fauci's appearance Tuesday was ostensibly to urge Americans to get their updated COVID-19 booster shots, but the briefing quickly descended into chaos as reporters began pressing him on his personal role in investigating COVID's origins.
At multiple points, Jean-Pierre began shouting down reporters for asking questions out of turn.
Also:
Here is @VeraEtches's written submission to the @OCDSB mask mandate meeting tonight. Key notes:
— Balaclava (@Balacla27914533) November 22, 2022
- No recommendation to make masks mandatory
- No evidence that mask mandates were effective previously
- RSV has plateaued in the community without mandateshttps://t.co/vST1i0UJnQ
A laughing gunman opened fire in a busy Virginia Walmart on Tuesday night — slaughtering six people in a senseless attack just days before Thanksgiving, police and witnesses said.
The shooter, believed to the store manager at the Walmart on Sam’s Circle in Chesapeake, is also dead.
In a news briefing Wednesday morning, Chesapeake Police Chief Mark Solesky said the attacker was a current employee who took his own life using a pistol.
“There is no clear motive at this time,” Solesky told reporters, adding that he had no indication that the gunman was known to law enforcement before the shooting.
No comments:
Post a Comment