Iranian ex-patriates and human-rights groups are voicing outrage after evidence emerged that Canada had issued a visitor visa to a former Tehran police chief linked to various human-rights abuses.
Canada
Online fundraising for Ottawa protesters ‘facilitating’ crime, Ottawa police argue in court
A U.S.-based crowdfunding campaign for protesters who have laid siege to parts of Ottawa is “facilitating” crime, police wrote in a court affidavit used to freeze the funds.
The Ottawa Police Service said the roughly US$9 million raised on GiveSendGo was intended to sustain the protests, and was therefore “facilitating the indictable offence of mischief.”
Convoy protest could change the way money is monitored, says watchdog agency
The use of American crowdfunding sites to financially fuel the anti-vaccine mandate convoy protest in Ottawa could lead to changes in the way financial transactions are monitored, a top official with Canada’s money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog told members of Parliament Thursday.
Testifying before members of the House of Commons committee on public safety and national security, Barry MacKillop, deputy director of intelligence for the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), said there are likely lessons to be learned from the protest.
More Foreign Interference Just Like Justin Warned Us About! Canadian Mayor Says Democratic Governor Offered Equipment to Remove ‘Freedom Convoy’
Mayor Drew Dilkens of Windsor, Ontario said in a press conference Thursday that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, offered to send over “heavy equipment” to help remove trucks blocking the Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor.
This is the question I asked @JustinTrudeau during the leaders debate
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This is the question I asked @JustinTrudeau during the leaders debate.#FreedomRally#convoytoottawa2022 #TruckerConvoy pic.twitter.com/HaGz2QNgvJ
— Alexandra Lavoie (@ThevoiceAlexa) February 10, 2022
Doug Ford Declares Draconian State Of Emergency
… Ford said fines for non-compliance will be severe, with a maximum penalty of $100,000 and up to a year of jail time.
Additional authority is also being considered to take away the personal and commercial licences of anyone who does not comply with the orders, Ford said.
The measures are temporary, Ford added.
Not sure this will win him re-election.
Nutz.
The Ontario Provincial Police are allegedly monitoring social media groups for the Freedom Convoy and visiting people’s homes who have commented on Facebook groups regarding the convoy. pic.twitter.com/CqNhsrmaZE
— Marie Oakes (@TheMarieOakes) February 11, 2022
The Freedom Convoy will lead to Justin Trudeau’s resignation as Prime Minister. Here’s why
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as is to be expected, is repeating himself like a trained parrot, saying nothing but out of touch slogans about vaccines and science and swastikas to avoid the questions.
However, there is a mutiny brewing within the Liberal Party, and things are not going Trudeau’s way. So far two Liberal Members of Parliament (MPs) have broken ranks and accused the Prime Minister of dividing Canadians, using COVID as an excuse to put a wedge between people for political gain. Both MPs say they represent a growing faction in Trudeau’s own party.
Biden commands Trudeau get even tougher with Freedom Convoy … Why that smells like foreign interference!
Ontario has brought in more draconian rules to crack down on Freedom Convoy truckers – including vehicle seizures and fines – just days after honking was banned and after the US told Canada to use federal powers to end the blockades.
US President Joe Biden on Thursday urged his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau to impose further rules as the bumper-to-bumper demonstration on the city’s Ambassador Bridge forced auto plants on both sides of the border to shut down or scale back production.
The bridge, which connects Windsor, Ontario with Detroit, Michigan, is North America’s busiest international land border and usually carries more than $327million of goods per day on over 8,000 trucks, accommodating 27 percent of the approximately $400 billion in annual trade between Canada and the US.
Keep in mind that Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer would happily see us freeze in the dark by destroying the Enbridge pipeline that feeds Ontario and Quebec.
Trucker Blockade of US-Canada Border Bridge Forcing Carmakers to Cut Production
On Feb. 7, Canadians protesting the nation’s cross-border vaccine mandate and other pandemic-related restrictions began a blockade of the Ambassador Bridge, a vital crossing over the Detroit River between the Motor City and Windsor, Ontario. Constructed in 1929, the bridge is a vital trade artery between the two nations with $323 million worth of goods crossing over it each day—over a quarter of the trade between the U.S. and its neighbor to the north.
The Canadian government has been been moving incrementally toward invalidating parental rights.
1/ The Canadian government has been been moving incrementally toward invalidating parental rights.
Giving medical decision making power to children when their brains aren’t developedhttps://t.co/JH3C6X7oef
— unspinthespinagain (@unspinthespina1) February 10, 2022
Justin Trudeau’s Ceauşescu Moment
Trudeau is becoming the ultimate example. Truckers last month began protesting a January 22nd rule that required the production of vaccine passports before crossing the U.S.-Canadian border. Canadian truckers are reportedly 90% vaccinated, above the country’s 78% total, a key detail that’s been brazenly ignored by media in both countries determined to depict these more as “anti-vax” than “anti-mandate” protests (which seem to be about many things at once, but that’s another story). When an angry convoy descended upon the capital, Trudeau dismissed them in a soliloquy that can only be described as inspired political arson:
The small fringe minority of people who are on their way to Ottawa, who are holding unacceptable views that they are expressing, do not represent the views of Canadians…who know that following the science and stepping up to protect each other is the best way to ensure our rights, our freedoms, our values as a country.
Biden regime leans on empty suit Trudeau to squash peaceful Trucker demonstration
U.S. offers Trudeau government help to end border blockade
U.S. officials have offered to help the Trudeau government end an anti-vaccine mandate protest blockade that is sending ripple effects through the American economy and causing increasing concern in Washington.
The White House says U.S. officials had multiple conversations on Thursday with their Canadian counterparts about the blockade on the Ambassador Bridge, a major trade artery which connects Windsor, Ont. with Detroit.
Gee, it seems like only yesterday the Libs were crying about “foreign involvement” in Canadian affairs.
US ‘freedom convoy’ could disrupt Sunday’s Super Bowl, officials warn
A planned American “freedom convoy” of truckers opposed to vaccine mandates, inspired by protests in Canada, could involve a blockade of the Super Bowl in Los Angeles this weekend that “could severely disrupt transportation, federal government, and law enforcement”, according to reports.
The Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin to US law enforcement agencies warning of a convoy “potentially impacting Super Bowl LVI” on 13 February, and the 1 March State of the Union address in Washington, where the mooted convoy is likely to arrive, CBS reported.
The DHS bulletin said such a protest “could severely disrupt transportation, federal government, and law enforcement operations through gridlock and potential counter-protests”.
How organizers with police and military expertise may be helping Ottawa convoy protest dig in
For nearly two weeks anti-vaccine mandate demonstrators and their big rigs have entrenched themselves in Ottawa’s parliamentary district and its neighbourhoods.
Despite a strategic strike by police to cut off supplies to truckers encamped in the city’s downtown core, protesters appear to still have the upper hand on police.
It’s a success that experts partly attribute to the deep knowledge of law enforcement and military tactics that exist in the convoy’s organizational structure.
Trudeau Makes Bizarre Statements Showing No Self-Awareness Or Grasp On Reality
So Trudeau comes out and condemns the massive freedom protests, saying that “individuals are trying to blockade our economy, our democracy, and our fellow citizens’ daily lives. It has to stop.”
Oh, honey. Bless your little authoritarian heart. You can’t be serious. You can’t be this dense.
HE is the one who has been blockading their economy, their democracy, and their fellow citizens’ daily lives for TWO YEARS. HE is the one who has to be made to stop. Thus the freedom protests. To make him stop blockading their economy, their democracy, and their fellow citizens’ daily lives.