In Canada, pushback will be less violent but FAR MORE PROBLEMATIC for the Federal Government than what is happening in Europe. Our world is about to change.
Via Zerohedge.com
The Macron government has changed its tone after five straight weeks of violent “Yellow Vest” demonstrations across the country.
On Sunday Prime Minister Édouard Philippe admitted to Les Echoes newspaper that mistakes were made in the handling of the protests, and that a dialogue is needed.
“We made mistakes. We did not listen enough to the French people. I remain convinced that they want this country to be transformed,” said Philippe.
Protesters donning yellow reflective jackets began filling the streets across France on November 17 – initially in protest to a fuel tax aimed at combating global warming – and morphing into a country-wide rebuke of the Macron government. There have been seven deaths, over 4,500 arrests and hundreds of injuries during the demonstrations – as protesters smashed store windows, looted, set fire to vehicles and defaced statues. In addition to a massive presence, Police have responded to the protests with tear gas and pepper spray to try and disperse crowds.
In early December Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire called the economic impact of the protests a “catastrophe,”
Meanwhile, the Yellow Vest protests have spread to multiple European countries – most notably the Netherlands and Belgium, while also spreading to Israel, Iraq and now Canada.
Yellow Vest protesters and counter-protesters were seen last weekend in several Canadian cities, including Toronto, Calgary, Halifax, Edmonton, Saskatoon and Moncton.
“I have never met even one Canadian that understands how a carbon tax is going to reduce carbon emissions,” said protester James Hoskins to CTV Atlantic. Another Canadian Yellow Vest, Barry Ahern, called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s summer grant program “oppression of Canadians by our own people.” The program has been criticized for requiring organizations applying for summer job grants to sign an “attestation” confirming that they respect LGBT and abortion rights.
In Calgary, a large rally began outside the downtown Kerby Centre, with protester Craig Chandler telling CTV Calgary that people were upset over pipelines and Trudeau’s leadership in general.
“Ever since France has been doing it, everybody wants to do it, “ said Chandler, a member of the Progressive Group for Independent Business, who also called out Calgary Centre MP Kent Hehr.
“We want to know from our MP why he’s done nothing on the pipeline problem, why he’s done nothing on oil and gas when he represents oil and gas,” Chandler said. “We want to know why Quebec is getting $13 billion in transfer payments when we’re hurting.”
Hehr acknowledged the difficulties in the city but stressed his government’s commitment to some pipeline construction — including the Trans Mountain expansion.
“There is no doubt that we want to ensure that when Alberta does well, Canada does well,” he said. –CTV News
Canadians in Toronto voiced their frustration over carbon taxes and immigration, while in Edmonton there were tensions between Yellow Vests and counter-protesters as hundreds assembled at the Alberta Legislature.
“I’m tired of Trudeau basically doing what he wants with our money and sending it overseas,” said Yellow Vest protester who goes by the name Turk. “Right now, personally, I’m facing a job crisis. All our oil jobs are gone, all our money is going south.”
I already have a yellow vest and am just waiting for an opportunity to wear it.
There’s a construction site just down the street from me. I’ll see if I can talk to the foreman and make that happen for you. How’s your Spanish?
I knew you weren’t going to like my comment but let’s get real: Americans DON’T MAKE GOOD REVOLUTIONARIES. Too fat and too lazy. Too addicted to pharmaceutical drugs, video games and pornography. Too heavily brainwashed into compliant obedience by government propaganda. Too socially divided thanks to Identity Politics. Too self-centered.
To rise up in arms against a tyrannical government you have to be TRULY hungry & fed-up. You have to have a strong cohesive social structure. You have to be willing to face your enemy in the flesh, not drone bomb them like cowards from 7422 miles away whilst sipping coffee in your underground bunker in Nevada. You have to be willing to lose it all because basically you have NOTHING to lose anymore anyway.
America is finished. The future belongs to Russia & China.
It is really very simple. You keep your inheritance for your children and their descendants . You don’t sell it off to the highest bidder, giving it away for pennies on the dollar.
White Americans don’t need to riot.
They just need to take aim and squeeze.
“White Americans don’t need to riot. They just need to take aim and squeeze.”
Yeah right.
The U.S. government legalized torture by changing the legal definition of the word to “enhanced interrogation”, legalized kidnapping by eliminating habeas corpus, legalized highway robbery by re-branding it as ‘civil asset forfeitures’, legalized a de facto police state by invariably failing to prosecute egregious cases of law enforcement abuse against innocent citizens, legalized massive spying on the general population on a level never previously seen before in human history, it runs a system of secret parallel courts (FISA courts) that use secret interpretations of law in order to issue secret warrants that no one will ever know about thanks to secret gag orders.
And what did white Americans (or any other colored ones for that matter) being the most heavily armed civilian population on the face of this planet actually DO?
N-O-T-H-I-N-G. Nada. Zip. Zilch.
“White” Americans don’t need to riot. What they need is…
…and the NDAA (again)
John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019
“They just need to take aim and squeeze.”
Sounds like a commercial for Metamucil®.
Well, it’s just not fair that you white people in Canada have a better standard of living than the poor blacks in Africa, so we need to raise the African standard of living by bringing down the White Canadian standard of living so that we have economic equality.. It’s only fair…social justice and all..So we’re going to give them most of what you work hard for…If you object, you are a racist piece of dog doo.
When they realize how stupid it was to sell ALL their gold, they’re really gonna be pissed.
The vests aren’t yellow. They’re chartreuse. France will continue to be a fag country and Canada will continue to France-Lite. They can protest all they want. Nothing will happen. They had a chance with Marine Le Pen and they rejected her. If the vote were held again tomorrow, they’d reject her again.
From what I have been told, the voting system in France is totally corrupt and Marine Le Pen probably won the election. And keep in mind that the French have thrown off the yoke of tyranny before and their DNA hasn’t changed that much over the past 200 years or so. Our genetic attributes that evolved over 30,000 years on a hostile glaciated landscape in Europe present the greatest obstacle to total control by the Deep State because it is hard to alter in short period of time. Brainwashing Europeans to hate themselves and to stop having children to save the environment has worked but only up to a point. That is why they have resorted to replacement, dilution and dispossession by low-IQ people with high fertility from the third-world.
Iska implies that Le Pen is not owned same as Macron…… that’s some funny shit right there.
I’m amazed that there seem to be that many people sufficiently awake to want to protest over these issues. Fortunately in America we have enough reality tv, beer, nfl programming and amazon to keep us all sufficiently numbed down and distracted. We won’t be protesting disastrous, totalitarian, socialist policies. Nope.
Self declared feminist and son of a Marxist Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Regime he leads is finished although he doesn’t realize this fact yet. And if Andrew Scheer and the Conservative Party of Canada don’t seize the opportunity to represent the people, they are also finished. This people’s revolution will shake Christian Western Civilization to its foundations…and after the dust settles, there will be few western governments and major political parties that survive. The battle lines are drawn but not between Republicans and Democrats, Liberals and Conservatives, left versus right…these are false paradigms….but between the people and an immoral globalists’ Deep State that now controls the entire western world. The globalists no longer control the narrative among the thinkers of the west who are the agents of change, not the dumb-driven masses. To reduce it to its core element: this is a war between good and unspeakable evil. We are many and they are few but very wealthy. The outcome is not in doubt but this scum-of-this -earth will not give up without a battle to the death because their lives are at stake. Like cornered rats in a dank basement, they don’t have a lot of choices and very few good outcomes. So expect them to use all the tools at their disposal – economic collapse, mass immigration from the third world, 24/7 MSM propaganda, de-platforming of conservative web sites, false-flag events and ultimately war with Russia or China.
My Spidey sense tells me that neither Russia nor China will bite. Everything else is possible. They’ll do their best to destroy us internally before they turn out the lights and leave the room.
I would agree that Russia and China know the narrative and won’t be easily suckered into a war. The US, Israel and NATO have been trying to jump-start a conflict with Russia for sometime and have so far failed miserably in the Ukraine and Syria. But I would not rule war out entirely.
I have a couple orange vests, but no yellow ones. Maybe I need to step up my game.
The ‘yellow vest’ concept was brilliant. Taking a government edict that every French car must have one made it a universal uniform the citizenry could don… except that many don’t have one to wear. Look at the photos. Many of the demonstrators don’t have one. That says they are unable to afford their own car which is why they are rioting.