Canadian Government Investigates Canadian Government and Finds Canadian Government Did Nothing Wrong
My shocked face is shocked đ
Last year around this time, Justin Trudeau had a problem. After a joint American/Canadian effort to screw over their citizens and effectively mandate covid vaccination for truck drivers who move across the border, Canadian truckers decided to protest the mandate by driving to Ottawa and holding a rally. (Side note: you can read the Canadian governmentâs hilarious backpedal after the reaction to the original trucking rules here. âWe arenât going to stop you from getting back into Canada, itâs just that the US wonât let you in â and vice-versa!â)
Setting out from British Columbia in late January, the Freedom Convoy was attacked before even arriving in Ottawa, with GoFundMe freezing the (at that time) $4.7 million in donations until the company was satisfied with the plan to disperse funds. (A few days later, GoFundMe released $1 million before eventually seizing all the money â by that time the account had reached $10 million. Impressive even in Canadian cash!) Nova Scotia went so far as to ban people from gathering alongside the road to support the convoy as it drove through.
I want to highlight these opening salvos in the Freedom Convoy battle because they clearly have nothing to do with downtown Ottawa or the protestors impact on the citizens of the city. The Freedom Convoy was miles away and was already being attacked â long before they supposedly broke the laws that the government was so worried about later on. Why was the convoy being attacked? Because the Freedom Convoy was highlighting the stupidity of vaccine mandates that donât stop you from getting covid. They were a POLITICAL problem for the Canadian government, and so they were attacked by that government. At the time these attacks obviously had nothing to do with the citizens of Ottawa, and later government attacks only used the citizens as an excuse to do what they wanted to do from the start â end the protests.
Of course, the attacks from government and their media lapdogs didnât stop once the truckers got to Parliament Hill and began protesting. (Check out the protest timeline from CTVNews.ca and youâll see what I mean.) Media immediately searched for any signs of trouble, often zeroing in on (very suspicious) protestors holding nazi or confederate flags. This was extremely important, because future attacks on the Convoy used smear tactics to paint the entire protest as extremist, if not white supremacist.
Listen to some of the extreme extremism going on at this extreme gathering for extremists (from CTVNews.ca itself!):
THE EXTREMITY OF THE SITUATION CANNOT BE OVERSTATED!
Predictably, Justin Trudeau used this âextremismâ as an excuse not to meet with the protestors while also insulting them from afar. (You see, fully vaccinated Trudeau had a âconfirmedâ case of covid and was isolating â which really should have been the end of the entire mandate discussion.)
So the truckers stayed. And they stayed. Government even attempted to make bringing protestors fuel illegal, but they stayed. And all across the Canada, vaccine mandates were falling left and right. Still, Trudeau wouldnât budge. The protests were growing so popular that Joe Biden feared a similar protest in Washington DC. The two men spoke by telephone on February 11, 2022 â and like a good little toady, Trudeau jumped with the invocation of the Emergency Powers Act just a few days later.
As the above video implies, the major issue for the Canadian government was that the protestors werenât actually breaking any laws by protesting. But by invoking the Emergency Powers Act, the Canadian government was âallowedâ to freeze bank accounts of protestors (and those who supported them) and use stun grenades and pepper spray to âdisperseâ protestors, often by compelling towing companies into action (they had initially refused).
I watched hundreds and hundreds of hours of live streams from the protest, and THE ONLY violence I EVER saw was by the police. Many people agreed:
But if the protestors arenât breaking the law, whatâs the emergency that requires special powers to violently disperse them?
Ultimately, the fact that Trudeau THOUGHT it was necessary seems to be enough, as evidenced by Judge Rouleauâs full report. (2,700 pages! WTF!)
Inside the full document we see some pretty sketchy arguments and strawmen that were never a part of the conversation, like this one below (from page 144 of the overview):
âŚâŚ.the Government did not have a realistic prospect of productively engaging with certain protesters, like those that believed COVID-19 vaccines were part of a vast global conspiracy to depopulate the planet.
This is a shameful strawman that excuses Runninâ Justinâs refusal to meet with his constituents. But the decision really goes off the rails here:
First of all, I want to point out once again that people who were nowhere near Ottawa got their bank accounts frozen, so the idea that government did this as a way to incentivize protestors to leave steals at least one base.
Secondly, OF COURSE being an authoritarian asshole is âeffectiveâ â THATâS WHY ITâS SUPPOSED TO BE ILLEGAL FOR GOVERNMENT TO BE AUTHORITIARIAN ASSHOLES.
Look at the joy on the face of Chrystia Freeland as she recaps the decision.
Sheâs not happy because she was able to perform a power grab last year â sheâs happy because she knows it will be infinitely easier for the government to do this next time. And make no mistake, Justin Trudeau and people like him have a LONG list of people they want to threaten into compliance:
Unsurprisingly, the Canadian government just made such tyranny easier for itself.
Canadaâs collapse continues.
I wonder how many politicians, judges have had something like this occur
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9wtFKXaltKY
It would explain deafening silencr. Also most congressmen sign oath to Israel? I've heard it more than once?
Pure treason if true. Not sure if I believe it
With the US Resident about to sign over our rights to the WHO, I fear we will be living this again soon!