There are signs that the pandemic is starting to wind down, and the mainstream media is losing its power as the population grows tired of COVID-19 hype. By now, most people who can be convinced to get the vaccine have already done so, and even those who once believed that getting it was doing something good for their community are becoming increasingly aware of just how wrong that line of thinking is.
The truckers’ protests have exposed liberals as authoritarians and leftists as enemies of the working class.
It’s been quite a few weeks for our neighbours to the north. Three weeks ago, a ragtag, grassroots campaign of disgruntled truckers made their way to the Canadian capital to protest a government vaccine mandate. As of last night, two of the organisers of what has been, by all accounts, a peaceful protest have been arrested, giving Canada – a country that bills itself a democracy – its first political prisoners in recent memory.
The document has reduced our definition of freedom to box ticking
If Canada has a sacred cow, akin to the NHS in the UK, it is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms — a constitutional bill of rights added to our constitution in 1982. As a national symbol, it is more popular than the national flag, the national anthem, and even hockey. Many Canadians can barely imagine that other, more benighted, lands might also have put some fundamental rights down in writing.
The leaders of Ottawa’s police force assumed the trucker protest would last a weekend.
When the Freedom Convoy protest began arriving in Ottawa on Fri. Jan. 28, police assumed it would mostly be gone by Sunday evening, according to a source in the municipal government with insight into the city’s decision-making process (the source was granted anonymity in order to speak freely). This was despite the public pledge by protest leaders to stay until all COVID-19 mandates and restrictions were lifted.
This footage shows one of many police beatings in Ottawa during the government’s ongoing crackdown on peaceful protesters. It was shot this morning by a bystander named Brian Kanabrowski. pic.twitter.com/3ypeTb8lc4
— Gregg Re (@gregg_re) February 19, 2022
“It is with deep sorrow that I learned today of the death of Cuba’s longest serving President. Fidel Castro was a larger than life leader who served his people for almost half a century. A legendary revolutionary and orator, Mr. Castro made significant improvements to the education and healthcare of his island nation,” said Justin Trudeau in 2016. “I know my father was very proud to call him a friend and I had the opportunity to meet Fidel when my father passed away. It was also a real honour to meet his three sons and his brother President Raúl Castro during my recent visit to Cuba. On behalf of all Canadians, Sophie and I offer our deepest condolences to the family, friends and many, many supporters of Mr. Castro. We join the people of Cuba today in mourning the loss of this remarkable leader.”
It’s Friday as I write. The police in Ottawa are already fully engaged in exercising their powers under the Emergencies Act. Arrests. Checkpoints. Blocked-off areas.
Parliament was supposed to meet to debate the imposition of the act. That got cancelled.
I hope everyone appreciates @JustinTrudeau’s Canada… “Protesters” chant “we love you” to the police. Police respond by setting off two percussion grenades. Any MP who does not unequivocally condemn this outrageous escalation is a disgrace to Canada https://t.co/9sz3Cmwf4O pic.twitter.com/Ow09utn691
— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) February 19, 2022
Yesterday, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice sent us a Mareva Injunction, ordering us to freeze and disclose information about the assets involved in the #FreedomConvoy2022 movement.
Here is our official response. pic.twitter.com/iuxliXhN5y
— nunchuk_io (@nunchuk_io) February 19, 2022
The problem with becoming a dictator is that madness often quickly follows. Caligula is an example from the past, for he was genuinely insane and died as a result of that. Closer to our time, so obsessive was Hitler’s effort to exterminate Europe’s Jews, he diverted resources from the Russian front, essentially assuring Germany’s military defeat. And in Canada today, we have a ruling party that’s equally obsessive, this time in its determination to destroy all political opposition. To that end, Canada’s ruling class is willing to bring down its entire banking system.
Just now Chrystia Freeland details how some Emergency Act powers will be made permanent. (we actually thought she might wait a few days before enacting a permanent police state) pic.twitter.com/HavsTUeo0P
— not inklessPW 💎 (@inklessPW) February 18, 2022
Things are hottin up agin…
You’re doing a great job of protecting “public safety” against these violent protestors pic.twitter.com/KsfLmBvqCd
— Joshua Blevins (@joshua_blevins) February 19, 2022
In Ottawa, protesters kneel in prayer and ask for strength in the face of heavy-handed policing and authoritarian rule. pic.twitter.com/6ZiW3nLFnA
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) February 19, 2022
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) – Police aggressively pushed back protesters, took control of some trucks and advanced toward Parliament on Saturday after arresting more than 100 people and towing away vehicles in Canada’s besieged capital. Scores of trucks left under the increasing pressure, raising authorities’ hopes for an end to the three-week protest against the country’s COVID-19 restrictions.
A group of Canadian clergy sent an open letter to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier this week rebuking him for invoking the Emergencies Act to quell the Freedom Convoy and for other actions they described as “tyrannical.”
Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs issued a statement of concern for pro-democracy activists targeted by China in Hong Kong. The statement comes amid Canada’s crackdown on the Freedom Convoy protest that has been demonstrating peacefully against the country’s rigid COVID-19 mandates.
