Canada
They came. They idled. They left. What have convoy protesters been doing since they went home?
One interesting thing about the convoy for Lee Bates and Sandy Williams and Luke Kendze and a lot of others once they got back home from Ottawa is that they remembered it as a revolution and a revelation – and not just in the religious sense, though that was true as well. Now that the pandemic has killed 15 million people worldwide, now that CSIS has revealed how alarmed it was (and is) about the northward drift of “ideologically motivated violent extremism” during February’s occupation of Ottawa, now that support for the convoy may be a requirement to lead the Conservative Party, it might help to know what stuck with the people who descended on Canada’s capital. Are Lee and Luke and Sandy permanent converts to the populist cause? What did they take away from Ottawa, beyond memories of barbecues and bouncy castles?
Legacy media promotes leftist protesters while smearing conservative ones
The legacy media has a double standard when it comes to covering protests in Canada. According to the media, protesters on the political right are “angry and racist” but protesters on the left are righteous and worthy of interviews. Plus, a recent protest in Brampton debunks the media’s fake and dishonest narrative of “angry and racist” protests targeting leftist politicians.
Canada’s travel and tourism industry urges Trudeau gov’t to drop ‘unscientific’ COVID mandates
In a press release sent out yesterday, the Canadian Travel & Tourism Roundtable (the Roundtable), comprised of representatives from airlines, hotels, airports and travel organizations, said it is “calling on the federal government to provide urgent relief at the border by alleviating pressures currently facing travelers at Canada’s airports before June 15, 2022.”
For Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau, centrist policies are more powerful than political labels
It’s a good thing Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau have learned to get along so well together over the past couple of years.
Both leaders have won the gift of extra time in office this year. Ford is now in office at Queen’s Park until at least 2026 after his stunning majority victory this week, while Trudeau plans to stick around to 2025, thanks to his governing pact with the federal New Democrats.
The two men have already had a convivial chat about where they’ve been and where they’re going in this unexpected friendship. They were on the phone, in fact, not long after the Conservative victory was declared on Thursday night.
“Both of us sat back and reviewed everything that we got done together,” Ford told reporters on Friday. “And there’s so much that unites us.”
Will Canada’s Historic Gun Control Law Work?
It was just two years ago that Canada banned many semi-automatic rifles, while it also imposed new gun control laws that included expanded background checks.
As part of the latest efforts, Canada has implemented a national freeze on handguns, which is meant to prevent individuals from buying, selling, or transferring handguns within the country. As part of the new legislation, the Government of Canada will require that long-gun magazines be permanently altered so that they can never hold more than five rounds, while the sale and transfer of “large-capacity magazines” will be banned under the Criminal Code.
Public inquiry into Emergencies Act wants access to secret information
The Trudeau government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act on Feb. 14 gave police and financial institutions unprecedented powers to crack down on Freedom Convoy protests surrounding Parliament Hill. These powers included compelling banks to freeze accounts, bringing in aid from RCMP and surrounding police services, declaring the protests “unlawful” and creating no-go zones in downtown Ottawa and around key infrastructure.
Trudeau gov’t funded report claims Freedom Convoy led to ‘anti-media rhetoric’
Canadian mainstream media, which is itself subsidized by the government, was caught spreading fake news stories about the Freedom Convoy.
Of course they did, the directions came directly from the PMO.
Canada’s Crackdown on Guns Sounds a Warning for Us
“In Canada, gun ownership is a privilege, not a right,” said Bill Blair, Canada’s minister of emergency preparedness, before referring to the U.S.:
“This is a principle that differentiates ourselves from many other countries in the world, notably our colleagues and friends to the south. In Canada, guns are only intended to be used for hunting and sport purposes.”
This may be true as a matter of positive law. Canada has gone much further in banning guns than has the United States. Gun confiscation isn’t far off. It’s the logical conclusion of the idea that all deaths attributable to guns are preventable, and any law or right preventing it is illegitimate.
But the notion that firearm ownership is a “privilege and not a right” for Canadians, as opposed to Americans, is incorrect. It is a right, just not one protected by the Canadian government. That’s an important distinction.
BC gun store sees a month’s worth of handgun sales in one day after Trudeau announces freeze
A British Columbia gun and ammunition store says that sales for handguns have gown through the roof after the Trudeau Liberals made the announcement that there would be a nationwide freeze on the buying, selling, or transfer of handguns.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Suggests Justin Trudeau’s Gun Laws Invite Russian Invasion
“Trudeau foolishly completely ignores how taking guns away from his people makes his country weak and vulnerable to being invaded and easily taken over by another stronger country,” the Georgia Republican wrote in the second post of a six-part Twitter thread on her official account. (Her personal account was permanently banned by Twitter over COVID misinformation.)
Why was Marjorie Taylor Greene banned from Twitter?
Greene’s personal account has been permanently suspended so the offending tweet is no longer viewable. However, several screenshots and quotes are floating around online showing the offending tweet.
Greene has been quoted by several sources as saying that there were, “extremely high amounts of Covid vaccine deaths.”
Canada alarmed as Communist Chinese fighter pilots ‘buzz’ Canadian planes over international waters
Senior Canadian government officials are growing increasingly concerned over a dangerous escalation in aggression by Chinese fighter pilots in the skies above the Asia-Pacific region.
Multiple sources in the Canadian Forces and the federal government tell Global News that Chinese jets are repeatedly “buzzing” a Canadian surveillance plane that is part of a United Nations mission over international waters.
Gonna be a lot of deep fried ChiComs one day and many tears from Canada’s China class.
CRTC confirms internet bill C-11 will regulate user content
The chair of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has confirmed that the Trudeau government’s Bill C-11 would crack down on user content – contrary to the government’s own testimony.
Testifying at a Canadian heritage committee hearing on Tuesday, CRTC chair Ian Scott said, “[Section] 4.2 allows the CRTC to prescribe by regulation user uploaded content subject to very explicit criteria. That is also in the Act.”
Welcome To Canada, Where We Criminalize The Law-Abiding
For a long-time, many of us have had the sense that things in Canada are completely upside down.
Yet, the past few days have made that even more clear than ever before.
We now live in a nation where law-abiding Canadians are criminalized even as criminals face lighter and lighter punishments.
The Liberals’ ‘Truck Tax’ Represents The Worst Kind of Class Warfare
The Trudeau regime’s proposed taxing of new pickup trucks in Canada has to be called out more often for what it is: obviously mean-spirited, and a form of targeted class warfare against blue-collar workers.
This type of tax already exists on the purchase of larger “fuel-inefficient” SUVs, but also extends to people carrier/work vehicles like vans and station wagons. The earlier SUV/people carrier tax is mean-spirited in its own regard and should be abolished, however, this prior law did not apply to the purchase of new pick-up trucks.
Until now.
This latest proposed tax is a step into total lunacy, and amounts to an attack on the concept of working for a living (although it’s not that surprising to find this coming from the Trudeau regime.