What an awful time to be a police officer. Should you act under the authority of the Emergency Act when it was unlawfully invoked? Should you crack down on peaceful (albeit disruptive) protesters when they are protesting the government’s violation of the Charter? Police officers take an oath to act only when lawful to do so. Our government has put them in a terrible position. I hope they act with integrity.
"Acting like the Gestapo"? Were they kicking in people's doors and dragging them away in the night to be tortured and murdered, never to be seen again? No. They peacefully removed the blockades and arrested some of the protesters. The police absolutely had to do what they did, but they should have done it a week or two earlier without the invocation of the Emergencies Act. Don't compare anything the police in Canada do to anything that the Nazis did unless there is a clear and demonstrable parallel. Arresting idiots for being a national pain in the ass is not what the Nazis would have done--they would have lined them up and shot them as an example to anyone else who dared to step out of line.
Gosh. Nothing that you predicted happened. Nor was there any international condemnation from any world leaders. I look forward to your braying approval when the CPC invokes the EA during their next term as government in order to remove indigenous protesters and/or other environmental protesters.
Do you ever get anything remotely close to reality or is it always just paranoid bullshit with you? Just shut the fuck up and go back to jerking off to Alex Jones' podcast and Rebel Media.
Jason, spot on! The population IS mostly brainwashed, unthinking, uninformed, gullible, complacent, apathetic and a bit dopey. A Canadian-born neighbour, a good fellow, who is well-educated recently told me that after chats he had concluded that most around us don't read, don't watch decent news, know nothing "and don't give a sh.t that they know nothing. In my less than humble opinion, most Ontarions are a dead loss. Not an original thought in their head. The trucker's protest was mostly Western Canada inspired and all credit too them.. They should cede from Canada and tell both Ottawa and their nemesis, Quebec, to go get stuffed with the rough end of a pineapple.
Looks like Trudeau is gonna milk that 7 days' parliamentary review requirement for everything he can. Not 100% sure how things will turn out but it looks like we might as well start calling the Emergencies Act the "7-day hammer".
I'm skeptical that this will change the outcome of a future election -- I'm guessing the only result will only be that Trudeau loses his job. I wouldn't discount the possibility that another Liberal government gets voted in, most people just tend to blame the leader and politicians are aware of that. Ideological polarization has sunk in deep in the west, and I doubt that people are going to suddenly jump over to the conservative side of the fence. Pretty much every well-established institution here that influences public opinion (tech/academy/media) has been taken over by progressivism, so be prepared for the worst.
Jewel, watching the CBC right now with pathetic propagandist David Cochrane, Hannah Thibedeau and other contemptibles of their ilk, I see no cause for optimism. Today there exists among many in Canada a really sick aversion to individual liberty, free speech, and tolerance of those who don't passively accept the status quo. The literal hatred I am seeing with some toward the truckers is astounding. The lies about them flows with amazing ease. Like CBC and CTV personnel, many Canadians lie with astounding ease as if they never had morals instilled in them when young. The truckers posed no threat to peace, yet on CBC I am listening to talk of trucker violence, intimidation, "homophobic slurs" and businesses hard hit. These half-wits have no interest in facts and truth - and still many truckers remain. Hurrah for them! Meanwhile we hear nothing about doctors being fired and even barred from practicing, i.e. losing their livelihood, in wondrous Canada for having the integrity to expose the serious failures of these vaccines. One doctor, Dr. Rochagne Kilian in Owen Sound had the audacity to ask why many of the patients landing up in her ER had been vaccinated two and three times. She also said that healthcare in Canada is not up to standard. She was told by the local medical superintendent that she could find herself unemployed - i.e. for speaking the truth. God forbid that in Canada she should tell the truth - so shortly after that threat being delivered she told this fool that she had resigned.
The useless Ontario College of Physicians - that in 2010 behaved reprehensibly after my son-in-law died after a minor operation - then barred her from practicing. Look at patient ratings of her and you will find her consistently 5-star rated. Not long ago from South Africa, she's fairly quickly discovered what a pitiful excuse for a democracy Canada has become.
I'd like you to know that there was no nasty intent in my comment. I hope are right and have cause for optimism, but I see so much that is now horribly wrong in the country, one being that it has lost its moral foundation. Widowed in a tragedy many years ago, today I have two grandchildren 12 and 13 in my custody. I keep a constant watch on what they are taught at school and challenge the garbage
- but get no support from parents who seem willing to have their children taught lies in the form of revisionist history and LGBTQ- inspired lies and scientific falsehoods. Canada's mainstream media is total rubbish, so I rely on other sources to get he truth. In our neighbourhood we have people who came to Canada from Tito's Yugoslavia, from Bulgaria and Poland. All say that Canada is rapidly becoming like the communist country from which they came. So it is Canadians who need to wake up, see Trudeau for the disgusting liar he is, and recognize that they are being misled. One neighbour went to Ottawa last weekend to seethe truckers and all that was going on. He said it was his happiest experience in Canada.
At least Erin the Tool left. I think he was suppressing the Conservative voices that would have otherwise dissented to many of the laws passed in the last 6 years. I say this as someone who had never voted Conservative but do now see the value of a strong opposition and a place for socially conservative values in society - when kept in balance with those who aren't that way (what used to be called the left, I guess).
Thank you for posting this link. How beautiful! Our grotesquely demonized LEOs are on the side of the people against tyranny. I wish this was on network news but won't be until we get beyond these Orwellian times. Sending love to these good people from the U.S.
I'm shocked at how none of my Canadian friends seem to care about what just happened. Trudeau crossed the line over something that should have been handled by the police. I said exactly the same thing above: When Stephen Harper 2.0, who was an anti-Canadian as it comes, gets elected and uses the Emergency Act to stifle things he finds inconvenient, Canadians will have no moral ground to stand on. Trudeau opened to door for governments to crack down on any anti-government protesting and it's sickening to me.
After many years of watching events political, I have determined that nothing happens without a reason. In this case it is what hasn't happened. There has been very minimal attempts to deal with the trucker's protest in ways available to governments and police forces. Trudeau hasn't even bothered to meet with representatives of the protesters. It seems that the objective was to let it go on long enough that they could claim an emergency existed. The pandemic restrictions tested people's patience. Having gotten away with these measures for two years, are they simply upping the pressure to see how we will react? I'm wondering what is really behind government actions or inactions.
According to their speeches they want to bring about an (Orwellian) "new world order". They want to (first destroy western democracy) then "build back better".
Had you not quit your job at CBC would they have let you write/publish this interview?
My guess is no.
So I'm glad you have set up shop where you are free to write what you like, at least for now. If Trudeau gets his way that could change.
Being in the USA I, like a growing number of others, have serious concerns that many of our government(s) are in the process of seeing how far they can push.
The concern for us all is are there enough of us willing to stand up and say no.
Here is what is very interesting: the trucker protest is one of the first protests in years (decades?) that isn't being funded by monied interests. It is literally coming from the ground up.
Thus the shadowy appearance of one guy wearing a mask (at a mask-less protest) waving a swastika; the shutting down of Gofundme and Givesend go; the hacking of Givesendgo; and now the introduction of the emergency act.
This is why the gov't, establishment and mainstream media are so against it; it is one of the first protests they don't control. And they're scared.
I find this article misleading in many ways. This act does not limit personal feedoms laid out in the Charter. No authorities HAVE TO use these powers. The present laws were obviously not adequate to deal with the ILLEGAL occupation in Ottawa with heavy machinery ( comparing this occupation to other legal protests listed by your guest is a false equivalent.Shame he can’t see the difference in the unprecedented situation as our ex chief of police made clear.
The present laws are entirely adequate to deal with the occupation (which you concede when you note it's already illegal). The present government lacked the competence to deal with the issue, but we don't need to flick on the Emergencies Act to make it illegal to blockade a road. If I park my car in the middle of an intersection while I'm on the way to work, there are plenty of laws that can be used to provide the authority to have my car moved.
In terms of what rights are being violated, freezing people's bank accounts on the say so of the RCMP with no judicial review could violate their rights against unreasonable seizure. It also probably violates their rights to due process to impose a sanction like that without judicial review.
Well said, Richard. The only people who think invoking the Emergency Act was essential are those taken in by Trudeau and Canadian media lies. Anyway who carefully and frequently watched the blockade, and got truthful reports rather than those of the disgraceful CBC and CTV, knows that the truckers themselves were peaceful, yet determined to have Covid-19 mandates, particularly the absurd trucker mandate, removed. Freezing bank accounts and destroying livelihoods with insurance cancellation and other draconian measures are those one expects in banana republic.
Destroying livelihoods with frozen bank accounts and cancelled trucker's licences limits "personal freedoms" is a gross injustice and a national disgrace. The present laws were adequate to deal with the occupation in Ottawa. The dimwit running the country was mot up to the task.
Destroying livelihoods with frozen bank accounts and cancelled trucker's licences limits "personal freedoms" is a gross injustice and a national disgrace.
Love to see you exercising your right to free speech, but this is empty-headed cheerleading. Try to add some value to the conversation. You're wasting people's time.
I hear you, Marcie. My comment was harsh. But I didn't see an argument. All I saw was name-calling (alt-right) and cheerleading (Lets hear it for those on the side of science, facts and order!), which suggests that anyone who disagrees with her is a barbarian that has no respect for science, facts and order, which is silly. Can you help me see the merit in Sam's arguments?
Jason, I first came to Canada from South Africa when 23, a long tome ago. Worked for a few years, studied at UBC and the year after graduating went back. For ten years through newspapers vastly more open to lambasting the government than those in Canada, I had my say. Returned to Canada after 14 years to find it transformed, flooding with the Third World, the media already a disgrace. The compliant, unthinking and submissiveness of most contemporary Canadians is astounding, so imagine my surprise - and delight - when the truckers peacefully staged their Ottawa blockade. At last I saw that there still are in Canada - mostly from the prairie provinces - many decent people with courage and convictions, and prepared to make sacrifices.
You really hate boomers, don’t you Jason? It seems that you blame that generation for everything. I take issue with point 5, as I saw and heard many immigrant voices during the trucker protest, who are standing up adamantly and courageously for freedom because they came from authoritarian countries and know what it feels like not to have freedom. I think it’s the other way around. It’s the native Canadians who are submissive and to an appalling degree. Talk about heads in the sand!
I am on the cusp of boomers, as is my husband. Our parents love the cbc and agree with everything they spout but 30 years ago we cut cable and have gotten our news through various internet sources since. We also have missed most of the cultural markers on tv etc. over the last 30 years. I think this is why we have escaped the mass hysteria of others
So refreshing to hear Jason's well-articulated views (and anger). I thought that millennials had been fully indoctrinated. Voices like Jason's give me hope.
I can firmly confirm that it is FAR from all millennials that are voting for this guy. I am 32 and have never voted liberal, and can confirm that most of my friends are also not voting liberal. Actually, we are seeing a massive inversion in political norms as a result of the Pandemic. There is a great article about it here: https://spencerfernando.com/2022/02/11/clear-majority-of-young-canadians-sympathize-with-truckers-protests/
I am so impressed by him! Truly a man of great strength and conviction. He said he was prepared to forego the upcoming Grand Slams rather than be forced into vaccination. What a lot to give up for the number one tennis player in the world who has devoted his whole life to the sport he loves.
Tara, what's the best way to connect directly? I want to get your thoughts on an initiative I'm working on, regarding journalistic integrity & the lack thereof in Canada
Thank you for the interview Tara. Noa's most important point is that violent elements in a protest do not delegitimize it. The interviews by CPAC and others of participants are the best evidence for their sound reasoning and good intent. Further castigating these protests with the Emergencies Act is already backfiring as a bullying move. Unfortunately this nuance is lost in the noise, people focus on what they perceive as a personal affront rather than the protection of peaceful protest.
There was real risk to citizens of Canada through these increasingly violent and confrontational blockades. In addition there were threats made against our government by foreign activators. I prefer the short term emergency act implementation to the continued damage to the people of ottawa and the tacit support of neo-fascist and racist elements in the protestors. Free speech does not = free intimidation.
What actual violence has occurred in these blockades, as opposed to speculative violence? An assault? The Oka blockade resulted in the death of a police officer and the Emergencies Act wasn't invoked to deal with that.
Harassment of people in Ottawa, engendering fear in many. Violence in surging businesses (including services for the homeless) demanding food from staff. Threatening health care workers. Sure, maybe no wounding physically but plenty of mental torment and what of all the damage done by the noise and pollution in the streets of Ottawa? It wasn’t all happiness and light. The nazi flags were the reason for my use of the f word, as were the stated aims of the far right organizers. I’m all for peaceful protest but this crossed the line. In addition, the blockades were country wide, which unfortunately required a federal response. I do hope this will only be required very short term, and I do believe in holding the government accountable for any actions. We are all accountable for our actions.
Which fantasyland media have you been watching that fed you this rubbish about "Harassment of people in Ottawa, engendering fear in many. Violence in surging, businesses (including services for the homeless) demanding food from staff. Threatening health care workers" and "nazi flags". CBC or Ottawa mayor by any chance? In fact we saw one nazi placard and it's evident the truckers did not attach it to a statue. One man carried a Confederate flag and truckers led him away, they cleaned up refuse, fed homeless and cleaned up any defacing of monuments or statues. The far left, not least those of CBC, CTV and disgraceful Justin Trudeau, have been misleading you.
Sorry, you are of course entitled to your opinion, but your view of the protest is horribly skewed. No wonder, if you only listened to mainstream media.
If your mind is open enough to listen to the truckers directly, this is a video from yesterday. Why in God's name to people have to go to YouTube to hear the trucker's perspective? https://youtu.be/P8tzXazvyHQ
Did the anarchists and arsonists of the BLM movement invalidate the entire movement? There is NO room for violence in this movement. I'd be willing to bet that the RCMP at Coutts were tipped off to the violent extremists by the other protesters.
it's interesting how fast the name calling starts. Avoiding or even demonizing the discussion with those concerned with mandates or the length of mandates is what started the protests in the first place. does this mean I agree with blockading a bridge? no but it certainly got some attention. what should get attention is the fact that the government advocated covid vaccination for pregnant women before the manufacturer studies are completed. look up clinical trials for Pfizer and moderna on pregnant women. people are allowed to be concerned and frustrated.
Sue, bowing to pressure from family I had two Pfizer shots. After the second shot I began experiencing severe heart palpitations and loss of energy, so did a 41 year-old female neighbour and someone else I met. After months this has not entirely cleared.
So I will not be having a booster and neither will my family no matter how much governments tell us we should. A female doctor, Dr. Kilian in Owen Sound found that numbers of people who were landing up in her ER had been vaccinated two or three times, so she decided that something was badly wrong and began raising awkward questions. Through the disgraceful nastiness of the local medical superintendent, she resined. The pathetic Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons then barred her from practising, i.e. removing her livelihood. This is what happens in banana republics and dictatorships.
Love it or hate it, this is free speech folks. Despite the recent movement to repress offensive free speech, cooler heads at the Supreme Court thankfully prevailed. Whether you listen to and/or engage offensive speech is up to you.
Allowing readers to mute individuals of their choosing is not the same as repressing free speech. To be clear, muting someone doesn't prevent other people from seeing that person's comments, it only hides their comments from the person doing the muting.
Jason Bryan is that guy the protesters hope doesn't show up to join them. I don't know exactly how many swastika tattoos he has, but it's safe bet it's >0.
Dorothyanne, the claim that "There was real risk to citizens of Canada" and that blockades were "increasingly violent and confrontational" is a lie, but if one watched CBC and CTV, heard their lies and exaggerations, not least those of Annie Bergeron-Oliver, then yo.u could have gained that impression. I have been appalled by the lies from various sources during the entire blockade episode, not least those of arch-liar, Justin Trudeau. It he weren't so incompetent and gutless this confrontation could have been resolved long ago. It is he, not the truckers who have made of Canada a global laughingstock.
Sounds like a CBC or CTV newscast to me. “Increasingly violent and confrontational.” “Foreign activators” Really? What evidence to you have of that? I observed something completely different in the protests. Peaceful, loving, and law-abiding citizens who are simply fed up with having their freedoms restricted and denied for no good reason.
Wow, Tara, you certainly unleashed a torrent of interesting and provocative comments on this piece! What I am most concerned about today, other than ending vaccine mandates and passports NOW, is the seeming violation of personal financial information through the infiltration of the donor list of the Go Fund Me fundraising initiative in support of the truckers. I need to find out more about this, but it seems to be a very serious breach of privacy that needs to be investigated, and any wrongdoing held accountable.
When I was a child I was outraged and depressed after learning about the holocaust. Now I understand the meaning of "slippery slope". We need to stop this totalitarian thuggery from the "woke" fascists before it's too late. Trudeau is a disingenuous coward and a very dangerous "leader".
So this morning I was doing some research on Trudeau's war act, and in one of my searches I used the term "Canadian Dissidents".... With that search term I literally by accident stumbled upon this little pot of gold... Trudeau's right hand person in his attack against Canadian citizens background. This was originally published by the Globe and Mail, an unabashedly pro Trudeau/Liberal newspaper...
“Though I was eventually forced to leave the country, I have no regrets about my time in Ukraine during the Soviet period. Out of this experience, what struck me, very powerfully, was how quickly a rotten political system could collapse, and how important the work of brave dissidents could be.”
"According to the KGB, Ms. Freeland was more than just an agitator for, as Col. Stroi derisively put it, “the liberation of Ukraine” who coerced Soviet citizens into staging marches and rallies to attract Western support. She delivered cash, video- and audio-recording equipment, and even a personal computer to her contacts in Ukraine."
We have a huge target to hit here, by pounding her and Trudeau with questions about her background, and why she now is standing tall and proud beside a person with aspirations she USE to fight AGAINST!!!!
Was she actually a spy for the Canadian government? Is she now using her training and skills to suppress the very rights and freedoms she use to fight for? Whatever the case may be, this raises MANY questions about Freeland and exactly what it is she is doing for Trudeau!!
Trudeau is doing exactly what Russian leaders were doing when she was working against the Russian leaders. So what changed her views? Why is she now doing the bidding of the same type of tyrant she use to fight against??? Was she actually a spy for the Canadian government? Is she now using her training and skills to suppress the very rights and freedoms she use to fight for? Whatever the case may be, this raises MANY questions about Freeland and exactly what it is she is doing for Trudeau!!
Trudeau is doing exactly what Russian leaders were doing when she was working against the Russian leaders. So what changed her views? Why is she now doing the bidding of the same type of tyrant she use to fight against???
This is nothing new. Aldrich Ames (CIA) and Robert Hansson (FBI) were both compromised. The Communist plan to destroy America and the West from within has been in play for many decades. The late legendary journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave wrote about this in "The Spike". He was approached by a radical left journalist who in the late 1960's uncovered papers that proved that the Soviets had plotted to infiltrate America and destroy it from within by the mid 1980's. He approached several media outlets that didn't dare expose it and was advised to take it to Newsweek, where I believe Arnaud was editor at the time. It's written as a novel for reasons of personal safety but is based on real events.
Please research Mr. de Borchgrave yourself. He was a world respected reporter, even named some of the '72 Munich Olympics terrorists and had to go into hiding in England to protect his family. Courage and integrity were his legacy and he forewarned us many years ago about this sort of thing happening within America and the West.
I remember watching a TED talk a few years ago with Freeland talking convincingly about the need to reduce income equality. I was impressed at the time. Now I see her complicity in this trampling on citizen’s rights as absolutely appalling and inexcusable.
There might be some consistency if we look through the 'globalist' lens. At their level they don't actually believe in or want national governments, they are accountable directly to the WEF in this case, she is on their website. As young Trudeau once said, having been groomed for his upcoming role, "Canada is the first post national country". Russia may not have been playing ball the way the big boys wanted.
What an awful time to be a police officer. Should you act under the authority of the Emergency Act when it was unlawfully invoked? Should you crack down on peaceful (albeit disruptive) protesters when they are protesting the government’s violation of the Charter? Police officers take an oath to act only when lawful to do so. Our government has put them in a terrible position. I hope they act with integrity.
"Acting like the Gestapo"? Were they kicking in people's doors and dragging them away in the night to be tortured and murdered, never to be seen again? No. They peacefully removed the blockades and arrested some of the protesters. The police absolutely had to do what they did, but they should have done it a week or two earlier without the invocation of the Emergencies Act. Don't compare anything the police in Canada do to anything that the Nazis did unless there is a clear and demonstrable parallel. Arresting idiots for being a national pain in the ass is not what the Nazis would have done--they would have lined them up and shot them as an example to anyone else who dared to step out of line.
The world is watching, Canada. We stand on guard for thee. Don't let Ottawa turn into Tiananmen Square. https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-counter-the-cultural-revolution?r=12n5dp
Government funds media, then media is used to support unjust, illegal actions. Corrupt as hell!
By your blanket attacks on everybody of a certain age, you prove you are no better than a racist (anti-white, anti-black whatever).
Congratulations on your bigotry!
Which ones? They need to be more vocal, along with the Conservatives in Canada.
Gosh. Nothing that you predicted happened. Nor was there any international condemnation from any world leaders. I look forward to your braying approval when the CPC invokes the EA during their next term as government in order to remove indigenous protesters and/or other environmental protesters.
Do you ever get anything remotely close to reality or is it always just paranoid bullshit with you? Just shut the fuck up and go back to jerking off to Alex Jones' podcast and Rebel Media.
Jason, spot on! The population IS mostly brainwashed, unthinking, uninformed, gullible, complacent, apathetic and a bit dopey. A Canadian-born neighbour, a good fellow, who is well-educated recently told me that after chats he had concluded that most around us don't read, don't watch decent news, know nothing "and don't give a sh.t that they know nothing. In my less than humble opinion, most Ontarions are a dead loss. Not an original thought in their head. The trucker's protest was mostly Western Canada inspired and all credit too them.. They should cede from Canada and tell both Ottawa and their nemesis, Quebec, to go get stuffed with the rough end of a pineapple.
Looks like Trudeau is gonna milk that 7 days' parliamentary review requirement for everything he can. Not 100% sure how things will turn out but it looks like we might as well start calling the Emergencies Act the "7-day hammer".
Oh vey!🤦♀️ And the people he's waking up aren't the sort traumatized by improper pronoun email signatures.
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I'm skeptical that this will change the outcome of a future election -- I'm guessing the only result will only be that Trudeau loses his job. I wouldn't discount the possibility that another Liberal government gets voted in, most people just tend to blame the leader and politicians are aware of that. Ideological polarization has sunk in deep in the west, and I doubt that people are going to suddenly jump over to the conservative side of the fence. Pretty much every well-established institution here that influences public opinion (tech/academy/media) has been taken over by progressivism, so be prepared for the worst.
Jewel, watching the CBC right now with pathetic propagandist David Cochrane, Hannah Thibedeau and other contemptibles of their ilk, I see no cause for optimism. Today there exists among many in Canada a really sick aversion to individual liberty, free speech, and tolerance of those who don't passively accept the status quo. The literal hatred I am seeing with some toward the truckers is astounding. The lies about them flows with amazing ease. Like CBC and CTV personnel, many Canadians lie with astounding ease as if they never had morals instilled in them when young. The truckers posed no threat to peace, yet on CBC I am listening to talk of trucker violence, intimidation, "homophobic slurs" and businesses hard hit. These half-wits have no interest in facts and truth - and still many truckers remain. Hurrah for them! Meanwhile we hear nothing about doctors being fired and even barred from practicing, i.e. losing their livelihood, in wondrous Canada for having the integrity to expose the serious failures of these vaccines. One doctor, Dr. Rochagne Kilian in Owen Sound had the audacity to ask why many of the patients landing up in her ER had been vaccinated two and three times. She also said that healthcare in Canada is not up to standard. She was told by the local medical superintendent that she could find herself unemployed - i.e. for speaking the truth. God forbid that in Canada she should tell the truth - so shortly after that threat being delivered she told this fool that she had resigned.
The useless Ontario College of Physicians - that in 2010 behaved reprehensibly after my son-in-law died after a minor operation - then barred her from practicing. Look at patient ratings of her and you will find her consistently 5-star rated. Not long ago from South Africa, she's fairly quickly discovered what a pitiful excuse for a democracy Canada has become.
I'd like you to know that there was no nasty intent in my comment. I hope are right and have cause for optimism, but I see so much that is now horribly wrong in the country, one being that it has lost its moral foundation. Widowed in a tragedy many years ago, today I have two grandchildren 12 and 13 in my custody. I keep a constant watch on what they are taught at school and challenge the garbage
- but get no support from parents who seem willing to have their children taught lies in the form of revisionist history and LGBTQ- inspired lies and scientific falsehoods. Canada's mainstream media is total rubbish, so I rely on other sources to get he truth. In our neighbourhood we have people who came to Canada from Tito's Yugoslavia, from Bulgaria and Poland. All say that Canada is rapidly becoming like the communist country from which they came. So it is Canadians who need to wake up, see Trudeau for the disgusting liar he is, and recognize that they are being misled. One neighbour went to Ottawa last weekend to seethe truckers and all that was going on. He said it was his happiest experience in Canada.
At least Erin the Tool left. I think he was suppressing the Conservative voices that would have otherwise dissented to many of the laws passed in the last 6 years. I say this as someone who had never voted Conservative but do now see the value of a strong opposition and a place for socially conservative values in society - when kept in balance with those who aren't that way (what used to be called the left, I guess).
Here is a video of the truckers singing Oh Canada and hugging the police in Alberta. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBz2cLX-NMM
It's shameful (and extraordinarily frightening) that the mainstream media are willfully repressing this side of the story.
Thank you for posting this link. How beautiful! Our grotesquely demonized LEOs are on the side of the people against tyranny. I wish this was on network news but won't be until we get beyond these Orwellian times. Sending love to these good people from the U.S.
Q) Where does water come from?
A) The tap.
Q) Where does water go?
A) The drain.
Q) Where does electricity come from?
A) Elon Musk.
Q) Where does food come from?
A) Server or deliver.
Q) Where does food go?
A) The toilet.
Q) Where does garbage go?
A) The metal bin.
Q) Where does recycling go?
A) The coloured bins.
Q) Where does freedom come from?
A) Shut up you Nazi.
Freedom is not free, it turns out.
I think our forefathers have proven that. An interesting Substack I read today asks the question what are we willing to sacrifice. Great question.
https://mellob33.substack.com/p/solving-the-freedom-tyranny-puzzle/comments?r=z7rn5
I'm shocked at how none of my Canadian friends seem to care about what just happened. Trudeau crossed the line over something that should have been handled by the police. I said exactly the same thing above: When Stephen Harper 2.0, who was an anti-Canadian as it comes, gets elected and uses the Emergency Act to stifle things he finds inconvenient, Canadians will have no moral ground to stand on. Trudeau opened to door for governments to crack down on any anti-government protesting and it's sickening to me.
After many years of watching events political, I have determined that nothing happens without a reason. In this case it is what hasn't happened. There has been very minimal attempts to deal with the trucker's protest in ways available to governments and police forces. Trudeau hasn't even bothered to meet with representatives of the protesters. It seems that the objective was to let it go on long enough that they could claim an emergency existed. The pandemic restrictions tested people's patience. Having gotten away with these measures for two years, are they simply upping the pressure to see how we will react? I'm wondering what is really behind government actions or inactions.
According to their speeches they want to bring about an (Orwellian) "new world order". They want to (first destroy western democracy) then "build back better".
Had you not quit your job at CBC would they have let you write/publish this interview?
My guess is no.
So I'm glad you have set up shop where you are free to write what you like, at least for now. If Trudeau gets his way that could change.
Being in the USA I, like a growing number of others, have serious concerns that many of our government(s) are in the process of seeing how far they can push.
The concern for us all is are there enough of us willing to stand up and say no.
Here is what is very interesting: the trucker protest is one of the first protests in years (decades?) that isn't being funded by monied interests. It is literally coming from the ground up.
Thus the shadowy appearance of one guy wearing a mask (at a mask-less protest) waving a swastika; the shutting down of Gofundme and Givesend go; the hacking of Givesendgo; and now the introduction of the emergency act.
This is why the gov't, establishment and mainstream media are so against it; it is one of the first protests they don't control. And they're scared.
I find this article misleading in many ways. This act does not limit personal feedoms laid out in the Charter. No authorities HAVE TO use these powers. The present laws were obviously not adequate to deal with the ILLEGAL occupation in Ottawa with heavy machinery ( comparing this occupation to other legal protests listed by your guest is a false equivalent.Shame he can’t see the difference in the unprecedented situation as our ex chief of police made clear.
The present laws are entirely adequate to deal with the occupation (which you concede when you note it's already illegal). The present government lacked the competence to deal with the issue, but we don't need to flick on the Emergencies Act to make it illegal to blockade a road. If I park my car in the middle of an intersection while I'm on the way to work, there are plenty of laws that can be used to provide the authority to have my car moved.
In terms of what rights are being violated, freezing people's bank accounts on the say so of the RCMP with no judicial review could violate their rights against unreasonable seizure. It also probably violates their rights to due process to impose a sanction like that without judicial review.
Well said, Richard. The only people who think invoking the Emergency Act was essential are those taken in by Trudeau and Canadian media lies. Anyway who carefully and frequently watched the blockade, and got truthful reports rather than those of the disgraceful CBC and CTV, knows that the truckers themselves were peaceful, yet determined to have Covid-19 mandates, particularly the absurd trucker mandate, removed. Freezing bank accounts and destroying livelihoods with insurance cancellation and other draconian measures are those one expects in banana republic.
Destroying livelihoods with frozen bank accounts and cancelled trucker's licences limits "personal freedoms" is a gross injustice and a national disgrace. The present laws were adequate to deal with the occupation in Ottawa. The dimwit running the country was mot up to the task.
Suspending due process doesn't limit personal freedoms?
Destroying livelihoods with frozen bank accounts and cancelled trucker's licences limits "personal freedoms" is a gross injustice and a national disgrace.
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I'm not right leaning at all and I'm a mid-career scientist. So I'm not sure why you've come here but apparently it's not to discuss anything factual.
Love to see you exercising your right to free speech, but this is empty-headed cheerleading. Try to add some value to the conversation. You're wasting people's time.
The fact that you are insulting the poster as a person shows you can’t deal with her arguments as a critical thinker
I hear you, Marcie. My comment was harsh. But I didn't see an argument. All I saw was name-calling (alt-right) and cheerleading (Lets hear it for those on the side of science, facts and order!), which suggests that anyone who disagrees with her is a barbarian that has no respect for science, facts and order, which is silly. Can you help me see the merit in Sam's arguments?
Jason, I first came to Canada from South Africa when 23, a long tome ago. Worked for a few years, studied at UBC and the year after graduating went back. For ten years through newspapers vastly more open to lambasting the government than those in Canada, I had my say. Returned to Canada after 14 years to find it transformed, flooding with the Third World, the media already a disgrace. The compliant, unthinking and submissiveness of most contemporary Canadians is astounding, so imagine my surprise - and delight - when the truckers peacefully staged their Ottawa blockade. At last I saw that there still are in Canada - mostly from the prairie provinces - many decent people with courage and convictions, and prepared to make sacrifices.
You really hate boomers, don’t you Jason? It seems that you blame that generation for everything. I take issue with point 5, as I saw and heard many immigrant voices during the trucker protest, who are standing up adamantly and courageously for freedom because they came from authoritarian countries and know what it feels like not to have freedom. I think it’s the other way around. It’s the native Canadians who are submissive and to an appalling degree. Talk about heads in the sand!
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I am on the cusp of boomers, as is my husband. Our parents love the cbc and agree with everything they spout but 30 years ago we cut cable and have gotten our news through various internet sources since. We also have missed most of the cultural markers on tv etc. over the last 30 years. I think this is why we have escaped the mass hysteria of others
Boomers don't vote for Trudeau. It is nutcases like you millennials
So refreshing to hear Jason's well-articulated views (and anger). I thought that millennials had been fully indoctrinated. Voices like Jason's give me hope.
I can firmly confirm that it is FAR from all millennials that are voting for this guy. I am 32 and have never voted liberal, and can confirm that most of my friends are also not voting liberal. Actually, we are seeing a massive inversion in political norms as a result of the Pandemic. There is a great article about it here: https://spencerfernando.com/2022/02/11/clear-majority-of-young-canadians-sympathize-with-truckers-protests/
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Do you hate boomer truckers protesting in Ottawa?
Broad brush there, buddy. Weakens your otherwise good points.
Don't you need an emergency for the Emergency Act? Someone needs to grow a back bone like Djokovic!
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/djokovic-unsilenced?r=raurr
I am so impressed by him! Truly a man of great strength and conviction. He said he was prepared to forego the upcoming Grand Slams rather than be forced into vaccination. What a lot to give up for the number one tennis player in the world who has devoted his whole life to the sport he loves.
Tara, what's the best way to connect directly? I want to get your thoughts on an initiative I'm working on, regarding journalistic integrity & the lack thereof in Canada
Thank you for the interview Tara. Noa's most important point is that violent elements in a protest do not delegitimize it. The interviews by CPAC and others of participants are the best evidence for their sound reasoning and good intent. Further castigating these protests with the Emergencies Act is already backfiring as a bullying move. Unfortunately this nuance is lost in the noise, people focus on what they perceive as a personal affront rather than the protection of peaceful protest.
There was real risk to citizens of Canada through these increasingly violent and confrontational blockades. In addition there were threats made against our government by foreign activators. I prefer the short term emergency act implementation to the continued damage to the people of ottawa and the tacit support of neo-fascist and racist elements in the protestors. Free speech does not = free intimidation.
You advocate suspending civil liberties and due process, then call others fascists. I think you are mixed up about who the fascists here are.
What actual violence has occurred in these blockades, as opposed to speculative violence? An assault? The Oka blockade resulted in the death of a police officer and the Emergencies Act wasn't invoked to deal with that.
Harassment of people in Ottawa, engendering fear in many. Violence in surging businesses (including services for the homeless) demanding food from staff. Threatening health care workers. Sure, maybe no wounding physically but plenty of mental torment and what of all the damage done by the noise and pollution in the streets of Ottawa? It wasn’t all happiness and light. The nazi flags were the reason for my use of the f word, as were the stated aims of the far right organizers. I’m all for peaceful protest but this crossed the line. In addition, the blockades were country wide, which unfortunately required a federal response. I do hope this will only be required very short term, and I do believe in holding the government accountable for any actions. We are all accountable for our actions.
Wow. You must be getting your news from the CBC and the Globe and Mail.
Which fantasyland media have you been watching that fed you this rubbish about "Harassment of people in Ottawa, engendering fear in many. Violence in surging, businesses (including services for the homeless) demanding food from staff. Threatening health care workers" and "nazi flags". CBC or Ottawa mayor by any chance? In fact we saw one nazi placard and it's evident the truckers did not attach it to a statue. One man carried a Confederate flag and truckers led him away, they cleaned up refuse, fed homeless and cleaned up any defacing of monuments or statues. The far left, not least those of CBC, CTV and disgraceful Justin Trudeau, have been misleading you.
Sorry, you are of course entitled to your opinion, but your view of the protest is horribly skewed. No wonder, if you only listened to mainstream media.
If your mind is open enough to listen to the truckers directly, this is a video from yesterday. Why in God's name to people have to go to YouTube to hear the trucker's perspective? https://youtu.be/P8tzXazvyHQ
You saw and heard this rubbish on CBC or CTV. So did I, and they are liars like Justin Trudeau
So well said.
I wish Substack allowed readers to mute people
Yeah take it easy Jason. We can discuss this civilly.
Jason, I hope you sort yourself out and in the meantime, please keep your hatred to yourself.
Did the anarchists and arsonists of the BLM movement invalidate the entire movement? There is NO room for violence in this movement. I'd be willing to bet that the RCMP at Coutts were tipped off to the violent extremists by the other protesters.
Just in case the rogue RCMP attacked.
it's interesting how fast the name calling starts. Avoiding or even demonizing the discussion with those concerned with mandates or the length of mandates is what started the protests in the first place. does this mean I agree with blockading a bridge? no but it certainly got some attention. what should get attention is the fact that the government advocated covid vaccination for pregnant women before the manufacturer studies are completed. look up clinical trials for Pfizer and moderna on pregnant women. people are allowed to be concerned and frustrated.
Sue, bowing to pressure from family I had two Pfizer shots. After the second shot I began experiencing severe heart palpitations and loss of energy, so did a 41 year-old female neighbour and someone else I met. After months this has not entirely cleared.
So I will not be having a booster and neither will my family no matter how much governments tell us we should. A female doctor, Dr. Kilian in Owen Sound found that numbers of people who were landing up in her ER had been vaccinated two or three times, so she decided that something was badly wrong and began raising awkward questions. Through the disgraceful nastiness of the local medical superintendent, she resined. The pathetic Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons then barred her from practising, i.e. removing her livelihood. This is what happens in banana republics and dictatorships.
Love it or hate it, this is free speech folks. Despite the recent movement to repress offensive free speech, cooler heads at the Supreme Court thankfully prevailed. Whether you listen to and/or engage offensive speech is up to you.
https://theccf.ca/victory-for-free-expression-and-comedy-at-the-supreme-court-of-canada/
Allowing readers to mute individuals of their choosing is not the same as repressing free speech. To be clear, muting someone doesn't prevent other people from seeing that person's comments, it only hides their comments from the person doing the muting.
Is muting possible?? Cuz I’d sure use that kill switch right now! 😝 FJB
Jason Bryan is that guy the protesters hope doesn't show up to join them. I don't know exactly how many swastika tattoos he has, but it's safe bet it's >0.
Dorothyanne, the claim that "There was real risk to citizens of Canada" and that blockades were "increasingly violent and confrontational" is a lie, but if one watched CBC and CTV, heard their lies and exaggerations, not least those of Annie Bergeron-Oliver, then yo.u could have gained that impression. I have been appalled by the lies from various sources during the entire blockade episode, not least those of arch-liar, Justin Trudeau. It he weren't so incompetent and gutless this confrontation could have been resolved long ago. It is he, not the truckers who have made of Canada a global laughingstock.
Sounds like a CBC or CTV newscast to me. “Increasingly violent and confrontational.” “Foreign activators” Really? What evidence to you have of that? I observed something completely different in the protests. Peaceful, loving, and law-abiding citizens who are simply fed up with having their freedoms restricted and denied for no good reason.
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Wow, Tara, you certainly unleashed a torrent of interesting and provocative comments on this piece! What I am most concerned about today, other than ending vaccine mandates and passports NOW, is the seeming violation of personal financial information through the infiltration of the donor list of the Go Fund Me fundraising initiative in support of the truckers. I need to find out more about this, but it seems to be a very serious breach of privacy that needs to be investigated, and any wrongdoing held accountable.
Try to find someone who grew up in communist Eastern Europe: There is nothing new under the sun.
If you have the time, seriously consider this. Just the first 6 months, but be prepared.
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When I was a child I was outraged and depressed after learning about the holocaust. Now I understand the meaning of "slippery slope". We need to stop this totalitarian thuggery from the "woke" fascists before it's too late. Trudeau is a disingenuous coward and a very dangerous "leader".
So this morning I was doing some research on Trudeau's war act, and in one of my searches I used the term "Canadian Dissidents".... With that search term I literally by accident stumbled upon this little pot of gold... Trudeau's right hand person in his attack against Canadian citizens background. This was originally published by the Globe and Mail, an unabashedly pro Trudeau/Liberal newspaper...
“Though I was eventually forced to leave the country, I have no regrets about my time in Ukraine during the Soviet period. Out of this experience, what struck me, very powerfully, was how quickly a rotten political system could collapse, and how important the work of brave dissidents could be.”
"According to the KGB, Ms. Freeland was more than just an agitator for, as Col. Stroi derisively put it, “the liberation of Ukraine” who coerced Soviet citizens into staging marches and rallies to attract Western support. She delivered cash, video- and audio-recording equipment, and even a personal computer to her contacts in Ukraine."
We have a huge target to hit here, by pounding her and Trudeau with questions about her background, and why she now is standing tall and proud beside a person with aspirations she USE to fight AGAINST!!!!
Was she actually a spy for the Canadian government? Is she now using her training and skills to suppress the very rights and freedoms she use to fight for? Whatever the case may be, this raises MANY questions about Freeland and exactly what it is she is doing for Trudeau!!
Trudeau is doing exactly what Russian leaders were doing when she was working against the Russian leaders. So what changed her views? Why is she now doing the bidding of the same type of tyrant she use to fight against??? Was she actually a spy for the Canadian government? Is she now using her training and skills to suppress the very rights and freedoms she use to fight for? Whatever the case may be, this raises MANY questions about Freeland and exactly what it is she is doing for Trudeau!!
Trudeau is doing exactly what Russian leaders were doing when she was working against the Russian leaders. So what changed her views? Why is she now doing the bidding of the same type of tyrant she use to fight against???
https://headtopics.com/ca/kgb-archives-show-how-chrystia-freeland-drew-the-ire-and-respect-of-soviet-intelligence-services-22093408
This is nothing new. Aldrich Ames (CIA) and Robert Hansson (FBI) were both compromised. The Communist plan to destroy America and the West from within has been in play for many decades. The late legendary journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave wrote about this in "The Spike". He was approached by a radical left journalist who in the late 1960's uncovered papers that proved that the Soviets had plotted to infiltrate America and destroy it from within by the mid 1980's. He approached several media outlets that didn't dare expose it and was advised to take it to Newsweek, where I believe Arnaud was editor at the time. It's written as a novel for reasons of personal safety but is based on real events.
Please research Mr. de Borchgrave yourself. He was a world respected reporter, even named some of the '72 Munich Olympics terrorists and had to go into hiding in England to protect his family. Courage and integrity were his legacy and he forewarned us many years ago about this sort of thing happening within America and the West.
You perhaps mislabeled Freeland as Trudeau twice above? I believe that Freeland is ensconced in the WEF matrix, on their board perhaps?
She is 100% ensconced in WEF. She is on the board of trustees! Here's a screenshot of the announcement of her appointment: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NlBCOBcpVYooHhLdbfnA4sChYxg39-xa/view?usp=sharing
I remember watching a TED talk a few years ago with Freeland talking convincingly about the need to reduce income equality. I was impressed at the time. Now I see her complicity in this trampling on citizen’s rights as absolutely appalling and inexcusable.
There might be some consistency if we look through the 'globalist' lens. At their level they don't actually believe in or want national governments, they are accountable directly to the WEF in this case, she is on their website. As young Trudeau once said, having been groomed for his upcoming role, "Canada is the first post national country". Russia may not have been playing ball the way the big boys wanted.