Yuri Bezmenov defected from the Soviet Union to Canada in the ‘70s, and his warnings about disinformation have made him a posthumous star on social media. Documents obtained by CBC News reveal his toxic relationship with Canada’s intelligence services.
The Canadian government is promising Bill C-11, which is aimed at regulating online streaming platforms, won’t hurt Canadians’ free speech.
Canadians ought to be worried about whether crowdfunding websites could be used to finance hate groups and other extremist organizations, financial crime and security experts warn.
As the so-called “freedom convoy” enters its second week of protests in Ottawa, hard questions are being asked about a GoFundMe campaign set up by convoy organizers and whether any of the $10 million raised so far might have come from malevolent sources keen on wreaking havoc in Canada.
What nonsense. I wonder how much money Communist China donates to Trudeau and the LPC?
The Trudeau government’s latest promise not to censor your grandma’s cat videos doesn’t mean they aren’t trying once again to regulate the internet in a very bad way. The new Bill C-11 is entirely aimed at bringing the same kinds of regulations we have on Canadian TV and radio to the online world.
You have no doubt heard the things that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been saying about the Freedom Convoy truckers and their supporters.
According to him and his pea-sized intellect, the truckers are racists, Nazis, hateful, anti-science, irresponsible, and so on. In addition, they like to desecrate historical memorials and statues, and are pretty much the worst people to ever live.
This “fringe minority” in the mind of Prime Minister Blackface is a group of radical individuals with “unacceptable views” who do not represent Canadians.
Trudeau’s words versus the reality. Brilliant video!pic.twitter.com/J1mIBqfeHs
— Truckistani Sunqueen (@sunqueentrg) February 3, 2022
Committee asking company to explain how it’s ensuring funds are not being used to “promote extremism”
A parliamentary committee has voted unanimously to call officials from the popular crowdfunding site GoFundMe to answer questions about a fundraiser that has collected more than $10.1 million to support the anti-vaccine mandate protest in Ottawa.
The motion, proposed by NDP MP Alistair MacGregor, calls on company officials to appear before the House of Commons committee on public safety and national security “as soon as possible.”
Liberal, Conservative and Bloc Québécois members of the committee joined MacGregor in voting to invite the company to testify.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is working with the Ottawa police to put an end to the ongoing trucker protest in the nation’s capital as officials brace for a resurgence in demonstrators in the downtown core this coming weekend.
“We will continue to work with law enforcement agencies to ensure that people are protected and to ensure that this protest, which is now becoming illegal, does come to an end,” Trudeau said in French in the House of Commons on Wednesday, when asked what the federal government is doing to remove truckers from downtown Ottawa as the demonstration stretches into its sixth day.
They are driving into a merciless political establishment
The world does not usually pay much attention to Ottawa, Canada’s sleepy capital city. But over the weekend it generated international headlines. A “Freedom Convoy” consisting of anti-vaccine mandate truckers descended on the Canadian parliament to protest cross-border vaccine mandates and what they see as the infringement of their rights. Anti-establishment voices, ranging from Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk to Russell Brand and Donald Trump, all expressed their support.
Canadian media outlets are relentlessly smearing the trucker protest. Make no mistake. Journalists are doing everything in their power to discredit an actual, grassroots, working class revolt.
The “freedom convoy” that has descended on Ottawa began as a revolt against new requirements that unvaccinated Canadian truck drivers returning across the border from the US must quarantine for 10 days. While we can debate the wisdom of the rules in question, what cannot be denied is the truckers’ huge symbolic importance. In a society that has grown much more polarised under Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government, they have given a voice to groups consistently demonised by the Left-liberal Canadian establishment: namely conservatives and the white working-class.
After three generations of an official culture of political correctness in education and the media, Canada has become a strongly Left-leaning society. Six in 10 voters support the culturally Leftist Liberals and New Democratic Party (NDP) while 4 in 10 back the Tories or populist People’s Party of Canada (PPC). In many other western societies, such as Britain, the balance is far closer to 50-50.
h/t SDMATT
Tucker Carlson accuses the Canadian media of being a mouthpiece for Justin Trudeau and ‘borrowing attack lines’ from the liberal American media to smear ‘Freedom Convoy’ of truckers
Tucker Carlson has accused the Canadian media of being a mouthpiece for Justin Trudeau and says they ‘trotted out some attack lines borrowed from CNN and NBC News’ to smear the truckers protesting the Prime Minister’s vaccine mandates.
On Tucker Carlson Tonight on Monday, the Fox News host criticized the Canadian leader for not meeting with the truckers.
‘”So I’ll meet with the people at a rally as long as I agree with their goals, as long as they agree with me, it’s totally fine, like Black Lives Matter,”‘ Tucker said, imitating Trudeau. ‘You get the sense even someone as dim as Justin Trudeau realizes this is not a winning argument. He needed his friends in state media to help.’
The media will not recover from this disgrace.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau emerged from a secure location on Monday to denounce the thousands of truckers and their supporters rallying in Ottawa as “tinfoil hats” whose behaviour has disgusted him.
“And to Canadians at home,” Trudeau said, “watching in disgust and disbelief at this behaviour, wondering how this could have happened in our nation’s capital after everything we’ve been through together – this is not the story of our pandemic, of our country, of our people.”
CUPE Paramedics of Windsor-Essex criticized governments across Canada for supporting vaccine mandates on Thursday, borrowing some steam from the Truckers for Freedom Convoy and continuing the chapter’s defiance of the position of the national union.
The ‘freedom convoy’ against vaccine mandates shows Canadians won’t give up their freedoms without a fight.
Canadian truckers have driven into the heart of the political debate over Canada’s vaccine mandates.
A 70 kilometre-long ‘freedom convoy’ travelled from Vancouver to the Canadian capital, Ottawa, last week, to protest a vaccine mandate for truckers crossing the US-Canada border. An estimated 10,000 protesters then converged at Parliament Hill in Ottawa over the weekend, and pledged not to leave until the vaccine mandate is revoked. The mandate was implemented by prime minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government earlier this month.
