“Criminalizing Dissent”

High Living Governor General Likes Tax Payer Dollars – Tax Payer Protests Not So Much

Indian name means “Put it on the tab”

Governor General Supported Shutting Down Convoy’s Online Crowdfunding: Emergencies Act Inquiry

During a phone call in early February with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Gov. Gen. Mary Simon voiced her support of the online crowdfunding platform GoFundMe shutting down its Freedom Convoy fundraising campaign, which resulted in most of the $10 million donated being refunded to the original senders.

Simon also said she believed the convoy to be funded by “some international money.”

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Freedom Convoy lawyer behind ‘false flag’ allegations is served libel notice, then chases someone

OTTAWA – The extraordinary controversy created by one of the lawyers representing some Freedom Convoy organizers at the Emergencies Act inquiry took more strange turns on Thursday.

Lawyer Brendan Miller was served Thursday with a libel notice by Brian Fox, a public relations executive that Miller had accused of parading a Nazi flag at the Freedom Convoy protest in Ottawa, allegedly to discredit the protest.

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Rex Murphy: Liberals make a mockery of Canadian democracy

The inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act is in its sixth week, which, it may be useful to note, is about five times longer than the act itself was in force.

Hold in mind that the act was actually only half-passed. It got through the Singh-Trudeau House of Commons. How could it not, Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau having exchanged the political equivalent of lovers’ vows — in greeting card lingo pledging “to be there for each other” any time scandal or Pierre Poilievre’s troops got close to presenting a real challenge.

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Colby Cosh: Jokes about sending tanks into Ottawa elucidate the ruling-class psyche

Among the zaniest nuggets of news to fall out of the Emergencies Act hearings this week was a text-message exchange in which exasperated federal cabinet ministers discussed mobilizing Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) tanks against last winter’s truck convoy protests centred on Ottawa. On Feb. 2, less than a week after the trucks showed up in the capital, Justice Minister David Lametti urged the public safety minister, Marco Mendicino, to act fast.

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RCMP wanted Emergencies Act to stay in place for up to three weeks: documents

OTTAWA – The RCMP pushed the government to keep the Emergencies Act in place for up to three weeks after it had been invoked arguing it was needed to prevent new blockades from starting.

The RCMP’s timeline came in a “key messages” document prepared for RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki when she spoke with cabinet members on Feb. 20, six days after the act was first invoked.

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‘Doesn’t Prevent Spread’: Feds Asked by Premiers, Industry to Remove Vaccine Mandates During Convoy Protests

Some premiers and an industry executive asked the federal government to end its COVID-19 vaccine mandates that sparked the convoy protests across Canada in winter, with some saying the mandates didn’t prevent the spread of COVID-19.

“I know it sucks politically to back down and reverse course but does it really pay to carry on the policy in support of a mandate for a vaccine that doesn’t prevent the spread of omicron and which seems to be vanishing naturally anyway?” said Alan Kestenbaum, an executive from steel-manufacturing company Stelco, based in Hamilton, Ont., in a text message to Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland on Feb. 11.

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It’s Trudeau’s show and Friday he will have to answer for it

I hate this asshole.

In true headliner fashion, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is up last at the inquiry examining his government’s use of the Emergencies Act to quell the protests that roiled the country last winter.

By this point, the weeks of testimony from cabinet ministers, police and government officials, bureaucrats, municipal leaders, furious citizens and aggrieved convoy leaders has formed an ever-narrowing corridor. Most of the thousands of questions that might have been asked about what happened and why have either been answered or batted aside.

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Rex Murphy: Trudeau’s national ’emergency’ was a pure concoction of political convenience

Anyone remember the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?

Not so long ago, the Charter — as the shorthand for it goes — was looked upon as Canada’s most important, close to sacred, document — something like how the British think of the Magna Carta, or the Americans of their Declaration of Independence.

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‘Freedom Convoy’ risked ‘irreparable harm’ to Canada-U.S. trade: Freeland

The “Freedom Convoy” blockades at the Canada-U.S. border risked causing “irreparable harm” to the trading relationship with the United States, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland warned on Thursday.

Testifying before the Public Order Emergency Commission, the finance minister said her concerns went far beyond the immediate economic harm the protests against COVID-19 public health measures was causing to Canada.

Absolute Horseshit.

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Emergencies Act: Canada ‘Freedom Convoy’ power struggles laid bare

The Public Order Emergency Commission is examining whether the Trudeau government was justified in invoking the Emergencies Act to bring an end to the anti-vaccine mandate and anti-government protests that gridlocked the country’s national capital and blocked vital border crossings, costing the economy millions of dollars a day.

Over six weeks, the inquiry has offered a rare glimpse behind the curtain into how Canadian officials handled the unprecedented protests that drew the global attention – and revealed plenty of frustration, “intemperate” text messages, and finger-pointing as they sought to bring an end to the blockades.

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Jamie Sarkonak: Jon Kay’s legal victory exposes Canadian Anti-Hate Network’s anti-conservative agenda

This is a politically motivated group that has no qualms about accusing mainstream conservatives of being racist and using the legal system to try to silence them

A recent decision by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has given Canadians yet another reason to question the federal government’s relationship with the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN).

On Nov. 10, the court dismissed a defamation lawsuit launched by lawyer Richard Warman, also a board member of CAHN. Warman sued journalists Jonathan and Barbara Kay for tweets that criticized CAHN’s links to the Antifa movement in the United States, which has been covered by C2C Journal and The Federalist (the Kays did not name Warman himself in their tweets). In the end, the judge ruled that the tweets weren’t defamatory, which meant the Kays wouldn’t be liable.

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Freeland’s Office Distributed Blacklist of Trucking Companies Who Participated in Freedom Convoy

A blacklist of 201 trucking companies that took part in the Freedom Convoy protest early this year was distributed by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s office in February, records show.

“Please find attached an excel sheet detailing which companies whose trucks are participating in Ottawa convoy demonstrations,” wrote an unidentified staffer in an email distributed from Freeland’s office, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.

That’s one apple that didn’t fall far from Grandpa’s tree.

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