Canadian coronavirus lockdown policies have been, and remain, some of the most stringent and restrictive in the entire Western world. It may be a Commonwealth thing, given that Australia and New Zealand have also descended into unrecognizable islands of cruel and capricious public health tyranny.
In Ontario, citizens are now allowed to eat popcorn at movie theaters that only opened up again earlier this week on Monday at fifty percent capacity, and only because of comprehensive drubbing that the government was subjected to regarding this ridiculous, make-believe public health directive.
Life in Canada has been tedious, tyrannical, and indescribably punitive. That is why for many months throughout the pandemic, ordinary Americans and pundits alike have been looking north from the land of the free (red states at least) and pretty much sneering at Canadians, bereft as they are of the First and Second Amendments. The polite Canadians, they scoffed, without their guns and their freedom of speech, were a lost cause.
And then one day, Prime Minister Trudeau pushed the nice Canadians a rule too far.
On January 15th, his minority government enacted a vaccine mandate for Canadian cross-border truckers – 80% of whom are already estimated to be vaccinated. So the truckers said the buck stops here. They quickly organized a grassroots campaign, set up a GoFundMe and sent a 40-mile long convoy to Ottawa, the capital city of Canada. It’s not an anti-vaccine thing, it’s an anti-mandates thing. And though the media would claim it’s a racist thing, the organizers are a Jewish guy named Benjamin Dichter and a Metis woman named Tamara Lich. The mandates for truckers were the straw that broke the Canadians’ back. The Truckers For Freedom Convoy is now camped out in Ottawa, demanding an end to all vaccine mandates, and to restore Canadian freedoms.
Interestingly, as the 50,000 truck convoy approached Ottawa from Vancouver, Trudeau Tweeted that he would need to self-isolate for five days because he had been in close contact with someone who had tested positive. And as the truckers and their supporters descended upon the city, he was whisked away with his family to an undisclosed location “for security purposes” and then promptly announced that he had tested positive for coronavirus (more isolation).
With over one million citizens at their capital demonstrating for freedom, and thousands of determined truckers saturating every single road around Parliament Hill, Trudeau offered no olive branch to the protesters. No, he would not meet with them, those racist, misogynists. Those Canadians with “unacceptable views” (like these guys here).
No, instead of calming the waters and speaking with the people, he doubled down and began a series of grotesque verbal attacks on the multiethnic, multicultural demonstrators, with members of Indigenous peoples very highly represented. To add insult to injury, his federal Minister of Transportation concurrently announced that not only would the vaccine and cross border mandates remain, but plans were well underway for the government to implement an interprovincial vaccine mandate especially for truckers. Revenge, served cold. After all he has done for us, the peasants are ingrates! How dare the people not appreciate their Dear Leader?
Taking a page from the American January 6th playbook, the Canadian mainstream media (largely subsidized by the Canadian taxpayers) has chosen to highlight the lone kooks in the crowd with bad flags (precisely one Confederate and one Nazi) and added additional hatred toward the peaceful, orderly and patriotic protesters. Their American media counterparts are sneering with equal disdain.
With the Prime Minister still in hiding, whoops, sorry, “isolation,” one would think it would be the opportunity of a lifetime for Conservatives, particularly Her Majesty’s Loyal Leader of the Opposition, to, as Professor Jordan Peterson exhorted, to seize the day and put the screws to the Prime Minister, to rise to the occasion and lead.
Alas, there would be no Carpe Dieming from the blander than margarine O’Toole. And by flip-flopping at a time of national need, and not reading the political tea leaves has secured his political demise. He’s digging in his heels, but it’s over. The truckers haven’t gotten rid of the mandates yet, but they now have one notably political scalp to their credit: Erin O’Toole, the guy who impossibly lost to Justin Trudeau.
Government rhetoric against the demonstrators is escalating. The Liberal government and liberal Mayor of Ottawa are urging protesters to leave, but the truckers say they have enough supplies for a two-year campaign and will not be coming home until freedom has been returned and all mandates are canceled.
The tides are changing in Canada and public opinion appears to be with the convoy. Inspired by the Canadian truckers, American, European and Australian truckers are also starting their own freedom convoys. As unimaginable as it would have seemed just a few weeks ago, Canadians are now seen internationally as a “ray of sunshine” and an inspiration.
Will Justin Trudeau back down and negotiate? Capitulate? Or will Trudeau’s classless verbal attacks morph into physical retaliation against the mostly working class truckers, their supporters on the ground in Ottawa and the millions of Canadians who also disagree with him and his sweeping mandates and are demanding their freedom? Stay tuned.
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I think any country where they say “the chair recognizes the right honorable Prime Minister …” is now suspect as fuck.
You do see who leads the Congress, Senate, and WH, right? Biden, Pelosi, etc vs Trudeau and crew. Those in glass houses and all that comes to mind.
Prime Minister Zoolander will never put this toothpaste back in the tube.
He’s toast.
God, I love those Canucks peacefully bringing down the plans of the fithy globalist
resetters and their cowardly lapdog.
God bless those truckers they are doing his work. The reds are losing control of this one.
In 1917 the Tsar was in absentia when local circumstances in St. Petersburg, the capitol, gave rise to worker uprisings that intensified as the days passed. Being, at base, a weak man the Tsar abdicated in the face of the widespread loss of support and the monarchy fell. Does history repeat? If not can it not at least be said to rhyme?
I’ll be watching for a ‘fast freddie’. Something is blowing in the wind. I mean, I hope something happens (to the good), but I’ve kinda noticed that everything happening has been planned and not for our benefit.
I’ve been praying for the safety of the truckers, and for the end of the tyranny they are protesting.
Here’s an idea – the protesters should have a daily group prayer at a designated time, and invite the world to join. Let the cowardly “leaders” attack that.
They would.
The poll cited showing 54% of Canadians think the mandates should be lifted is 10 days old. I wonder if that percentage has increased with the recent events.
I’m thinking at least 54% of Canadians think Trudeau should be tied up inside a the net during a high scoring hockey game. He’d make a great puck stopper.
Not a hockey fan, but I would buy a pay-per-view of that match.
My grandparents pioneered in prairie Canada. Gone for a long time now, as are their children, including my late father. I believe if they all were alive today they would be proud of their countrymen. They would be at the barricades. I am proud to carry on for them. The traitor Trudeau is a girly man and a communist. Even if he stays in office now and carries out his nasty threats to arrest the truckers and their friends and families, he is finished and the Liberal Party is finished with him. Godspeed Canada!
I wish I could do more then donate(and now be called a terrorist!)/fly a leaf flag on home/inform others of what is happening but seems will need to wait for the US truckers to get rolling.
I will say yet again if needed meet leafs at the N.H.-Canadian border if they need booze/smokes ect.
Truck goes “Honk!Honk!”
Canadian Goose also goes “Honk!Honk!”
Many Americans tend to blithely assume they are the only people on the planet with constitutional rights. I’ve read countless times how the rest of the world is so unfortunate not to have basic human rights codified. This is wrong.
Canada doesn’t have a first and second amendment, but we do have the right to own guns and the right of freedom of expression. Section 2b of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms states:
2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
b. freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication.
The Canadian constitution is silent on the right to bear arms, but Canadians’ legal right to do so has long been recognized (some scholars point to the Magna Carta as the original basis).
Unfortunately the section 1 of the Charter gives the pricks an out for ignoring the rest of the frigging document:
1. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
Of course, governments use that section to eliminate our natural rights whenever they please.
But then governments and courts in the USA disregard the Bill of Rights every day as well.
I just can’t see them backing down, though I hope I am wrong. They are probably going to escalate this via false flag or plain old direct action. Tyrants have a limited playbook.
Castro, not Trudeau.
Trudeau is just following orders.
I think when he “retired from view” to tend to his covid, Mr. Schwab got him on the phone and gave him a real “Come to Satan” talk.
If they stick together and not back down, then there is no way they can lose. Everything that everybody gets everywhere moves on a truck. Time to start small fires everywhere by ignoring all mandates. This will do a few things: Telling the gov “We ain’t complying”, it will give others the courage to just do it and a chance to gauge support from the general population, and if the gestapo moves on them, that ties up their resources everywhere.
Its a siege, how long ’til the food runs out ? Trucks or rail cars filled by trucks bring 100% of the food to Ottawa.
Something is in the air this week. I can feel it. It’ll be something decisive, either way.
You could be right. I have the same feeling about the stock market, though perhaps not this week.
Trudy is playing with fire? Maybe telling someone else to put another log in the fireplace in some secluded spot, if that. Time is on his side.
Baby castro??? Sorry but you’d be very wrong…
The Reds don’t have the guts to sic the Cheka on the truckers in public. Yet. They will do it when they think they can get away with it. I’m surprised but proud as hell of those Canadian truckers.
Eh,personally like this:
That said,understand if some viewers don’t!
Either way:Truck goes “Honk! Honk!”
Canadian Goose also goes “Honk!Honk!”
You think there are no guns in Canada? There are millions. Not the same ratio as our friends to the south but plenty.
Trudeau is a pussy and will cave. Mark my words.
Totally agree with you Westie. Trudeau’s government does not survive this. I couldn’t tell you how this plays out, but I’m pretty sure how it ends. I don’t know why it calls me anonymous. It’s me, starfck.
Next week Canadians will still be able to eat popcorn at the movies.However,”The Science” will restrict butter and salt to flatten the curve.