–If you donate to truckers, your government takes your bank accounts, 'exposes' your name.
–But if you rape and traffic young girls via Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, your govenment protects your identity and money.— Thomas Paine (@Thomas1774Paine) February 18, 2022
AS A CHINESE SATRAP, JUSTIN TRUDEAU IS CHANNELING THE CCP: Canada’s Panicked Government Engages in Undemocratic Theft: Apparently the rule of law doesn’t matter if Justin Trudeau doesn’t like your peaceful protest.
Emergency powers, threats to freeze the finances of peaceful protesters, and smearing critics as terrorists—it has to be China, right? But no, it’s our neighbor to the north, under a leader with a bad case of China-envy. For all the world to see, a panicky Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is throwing a tantrum over protests against restrictive pandemic policy that warns us how quickly an established democracy can lose its mind. It’s an advertisement for the value of cryptocurrency and other means of escaping the reach of the financial police state.
Part of Canada’s problem is that the country has rarely seen large numbers of people take to the streets in opposition to government actions. As a consequence, officials and some members of the public are wigging out over what would cause people elsewhere to shrug.
“By the standards of mass protests around the world, the ‘Freedom Convoy’ snarling Downtown Ottawa ranks as a nuisance,” The New York Times editorial board pointed out last week. “The number of protesters, about 8,000 at their peak, is modest; there have been no serious injuries or altercations, the truckers stopped blaring their horns after residents got a temporary court injunction against them.”
But that’s not how the country’s government sees it. After first going into hiding while issuing snarky communiques about the “unacceptable views” of Freedom Convoy protesters opposed to vaccine mandates and lockdowns, Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time ever against those he not long ago characterized as a “small fringe minority.”
“The ongoing blockades and occupations are presenting serious challenges to law enforcement’s ability to effectively enforce the law,” Trudeau announced on February 14. “Because of that, the federal government is invoking the Emergencies Act to supplement provincial and territorial capacity.”
Successor to the War Measures Act invoked by the current prime minister’s father in 1970 against actual terrorists, the Emergencies Act lets the government compel people to render services to the state and regulate public assembly with stiff fines and prison time for noncompliance. A public inquiry is required within 60 days, but Parliament is effectively bypassed. CTV News understandably asked Justice Minister David Lametti why lawmakers were given no say.