An Emergency in Ottawa
An Emergency in Ottawa
My conversation with the Canadian journalist, podcast host and author Paul Wells
Appears in this episode
After much anticipation, Justice Paul Rouleau has released his final report for the Public Order Emergency Commission, finding that the Canadian government’s use of the Emergencies Act against the trucker convoy was appropriate, but noting that he came to this conclusion reluctantly.
My guest on the program today had a front row seat — for both the convoy protests in Ottawa and the Commission — and he joins me today to talk about what this report means for Canada going forward.
Paul Wells is an award-winning Canadian journalist, the author of a popular Substack, and the host of the Paul Wells Show podcast. His latest book is An Emergency in Ottawa: The Story of the Convoy Commission, and it’s out early next month.
Paul Wells is my guest, today on Lean Out.
An Emergency in Ottawa
Paul Wells makes many of the assumptions of his class about: what is fatuously called "The Science"™; about the divine right of the elites in what we call a democracy to disregard the concerns of large segments of society (and judging them as some kind of inferior mob not worthy of any consideration); and about the right of nominally democratic governments to exert draconian, authoritarian controls on the population they nominally represent, regardless of citizen's legal rights and legislative and constitutional limits on the authority of government.
Nowhere in Mr. Wells' observations is the critical issue that the Trudeau government STEADFASTLY REFUSED to enter into ANY DISCUSSION WHATSOEVER- in Parliament, or out, or consultation with ANY objectors regardless of their expertise, on the efficacy of lockdowns and "Vaccine Passports" ™ and THE FAULTY m-RNA drugs themselves, even though the protestors offered to set up meetings with HIGHLY QUALIFIED AND CREDENTIALLED DOCTORS AND SCIENTISTS. Trudeau FORCED his will on all of Canada without EVER listening to the concerns of the protestors, THEIR MILLIONS OF SUPPORTERS NATION WIDE, or medical or civil society groups (such as the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms), who appealed to him, repeatedly, for an audience, prior to and during the Ottawa demonstrations.
No mention was made by Mr. Wells of the extraordinary assault on freedom of expression, association and dissent of scores of people from across Canada (whom he called a "fringe radical group)" by seizing their funds and bank accounts - setting a precedent that we can be certain will now rear its ugly head throughout the West, and which has eroded confidence in the Canadian banking system around the world by other neo-lib regimes, and changed the perception of commentators internationally about the once well respected Canadian democracy, who now cite Canada as a text book example of what it looks like when democracies are dying.
And finally, even now that we KNOW that the m-RNA gene therapy drugs that are falsely called "vaccines" neither prevent infection nor transmission; now that we KNOW BEYOND ANY DOUBT, despite Mr. Trudeau ignoring this Science (no ™) that natural immunity does BOTH OF THESE THINGS, and that there are rising concerns around the world about shocking increases in: all cause mortality, still births, infertility, (not to mention dramatically rising rates of myocarditis and pericarditis in the young) in nations with high rates of forced dosing with the m-RNA drugs. SO, as to Science (no ™) as opposed to "the Science ™ (officially promoted and VERY OFTEN false narratives), Mr. Wells will hear none of it. "I'm all for the vaccines", he says; "that's my story, and I'm sticking with it." Of course he is - it is exactly what we expect of him. (I'd suggest, Mr. Wells, "journalist" that you take a look at "the science" on the m-RNA injectables, by which I mean international, peer reviewed scientific studies and papers. To clarify, by "science" I do not mean public relations statements from Pfizer Corporation, a company with a horrific PUBLIC record of convictions for fraud, bribery, deceit and contempt for the well being of the people it tries to FORCE to buy its drugs, in collusion with the politicians, doctors and bureaucrats it pays for (not making this up - the court records exist - why don't you look them up some time).
Well, Mr. Wells, here is something to consider from someone from the "anti-vax, conspiracy theorizing mob" (who is coincidentally a political scientist): We don't trust people like you in main stream media, whom we regard as entitled, paid stenographers of the back room elites represented by Mr. Trudeau, big pharma, the US deep state, and the oligarchs who own them all, any farther than we can throw you, and that we see you as agents, and thus collaborators, of a Western oligarchic movement to destroy our civil, human and "democratic" ™ rights in a deliberate forced march into TOTALITARIANISM - which is now marching straight at us, helped along by Mr. Trudeau's gross misuse of the Emergencies Act.
Unfortunately this interview equivocates between two major issues, the COVID pandemic and the Freedom Convoy bringing clarity to neither. It shys away from the increasing authoritarianism of this government and the anti-democratic values emerging in all Western societies.
After all is said and written there is the undeniable fact the federal government's reaction to the Freedom Convoy was slovenly and hostile where mediation should have been the first priority.