Justin Trudeau used Valentine’s Day to turn Canada into a dictatorship
His actions are a direct contradiction to his claims he is not violating the rights and freedoms of the Canadian people.
Candian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ― who initially went into hiding during the entirely peaceful protests in the Canadian Capitol of Ottawa, Ontario― invoked the Emergencies Act Monday to try to end the Freedom Convoy protests there and across the country. (Photo: Davis Trent/Toronto Sun) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
For years there have been internet rumors and conspiracy theories abounding that claim Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the illegitimate son of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Fox News primetime anchor Tucker Carlson certainly seems to believe it is true.
While Castro’s promiscuity is well-documented and there is a striking resemblance between the Castro and Trudeau, we are not opening an investigation into those old allegations. What we and anyone else with a brain can see, however, is that Trudeau most definitely shares Castro’s love of communism and tyranny.
The Canadian prime minister exercised the most blatant evidence of his thirst for absolute power Monday when he essentially turned Canada into a dictatorship.
He invoked the rarely-used Emergencies Act to thwart the Freedom Convoy protests that have crippled the capitol The intent supposedly is to bolster police presence across the country to crack down on Freedom Convoy truckers and their supporters who are protesting vaccine and mask mandates forcibly enforced in Canada.
Canada's Emergencies Act broadens the government's authority to handle what it considers an emergency, allowing it to take action such as suspending rights to assemble and cutting off financial support.
Trudeau said the measures would be used to "strengthen and support law enforcement agencies" wherever needed. He said it was "about keeping Canadians safe" and stopping "illegal and dangerous activities."
Under the Emergencies Act, the government introduced measures intended to cut off protesters’ funding and took steps to reinforce provincial and local law enforcement with federal police. Those in Canada and the United States who love freedom immediately accused him of denying citizens of our neighbor to the north their rights, privileges and freedoms.
For his part, Trudeau denied he had done anything of the sort.
“We’re not suspending fundamental rights or overriding the Charter of Rights and Freedoms,” Trudeau claimed in the speech declaring the emergency powers being enacted. “We are not limiting people’s freedoms. We are not limiting people’s freedom of assembly, we are not preventing people from exercising their right to protest legally.”
But that is exactly what the emergency powers, granted Trudeau several years ago by Parliament, will do. His intent is the freeze the accounts, not only of the truckers and protesters, but also those of people who contribute to their support through crowd-0funding sites.
Even before Trudeau’s order, however, millions given to the Freedom Convoy through U.S.-based Christian crowd-funding site GiveSendGo was being threatened. Cyberattackers are bombarding the crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo and threatening to expose the identities of donors to the trucker protesters in Canada, spreading fear of reprisals against donors and intimidating others from contributing to the anti-mandate cause.
The platform’s website was inaccessible on Monday with a message saying it was “under maintenance” and would be back soon. The cyberbullying started soon after fundraisers for the “Freedom Convoy 2022” in Canada skyrocketed earlier this month and attracted millions of dollars in donations to the protests against COVID-19 mandates, said GiveSendGo co-founder Jacob Wells.
GiveSendGo.com founder Jacob Wells said Monday he will defy any efforts by Canadian authorities to stop the flow of millions of dollars from his crowd-funding site to the Freedom Convoy protesters. (Photo: Rick Johnson on LinkedIn) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wells told The Washington Times that people initially tried to overwhelm the company’s servers with traffic and make the fundraisers inaccessible. Despite GiveSendGo employees struggling to access their website, the fundraisers continued to rake in millions of dollars and the “Freedom Convoy 2022” campaign amassed more than $8.8 million as of Friday.
Monday, after Trudeau’s media briefing, Wells said any attempt by Canada to seize those funds would be futile, because the website is out of his jurisdiction. He further said that, regardless of legal actions taken by the Canadian government, his company would continue to send the funds directly to the protesters
Trudeau intends to make it even more difficult on the truckers than cutting off their funding. He also announced he will order insurance companies to cancel the truckers’ insurance policies. He will then order the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to seize the trucks, tow them away and jail the men and women who own them.
Those actions are a direct contradiction to his claims he is not violating the rights and freedoms of the Canadian people.
Reactions were immediate across Canada, particularly in the capitol.
Truckers who remained in Ottawa on Monday evening were largely undeterred by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's use of the Emergencies Act, felt it was another "power grab" and said they would continue their protest.
One trucker committed to staying opted to resign from his company after he was suspended Monday.
"The more they are trying to put us to the corner, the more we are willing to stand our ground," another trucker, Edward Martyrosya, told Fox News.
Trucker Jan Groen called Trudeau's historic move "disgusting."
He "just keeps grabbing more power, digging deeper, and we just want to talk," Groen told Fox News.
Many felt that rather than deterring the truckers, Trudeau had motivated them.
"I think it's wonderful," trucker Csaba Vizi said of Emergencies Act. "I'll tell you why: because even more Canadians who have been looking at the whole thing passively from their home, their couch … they might want to wake up and stand up with us."
Trudeau "just gained more freedom fighters," Vizi continued.
There were also negative reactions to the Trudeau power-grab among law enforcement and provisional governments.
Peter Sloly, the head of Ottawa's Police Service, has resigned Tuesday, sources told Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) News.
"Chief Sloly is leading important changes in the OPS to improve public trust, safety, service and value," reads a bio of Sloly on the Ottawa Police Service's website, adding that he "has received numerous awards including the Officer of the Order of Merit Police Forces Medal."
In protest of Premier Trudeau’s activation of the Emergencies Act, aimed at ending the occupation of Parliament Hill by the Freedom Convoy, Ottawa Police Chief Peter Stoly abruptly resigned Tuesday. (Photo: Daniel Swearingen/RadioCanada) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
At the provincial level, four premiers have stated their discontent with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's reported decision to invoke the Emergencies Act.
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, Premier Jason Kenney of Alberta and Premier Francois Legault of French-speaking Quebec all announced their opposition Monday to Trudeau’s invocation of the emergencies act.
They were jointed Tuesday in their opposition by Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson. She issued a statement said early Tuesday morning: "I am not currently satisfied the Emergencies Act should be applied in Manitoba. Winnipeg’s situation is dramatically different from the one in Ottawa. The Emerson border situation is very different than the one faced in Windsor."
None of the provincial premiers across Canada said that Trudeau made any effort to forewarn them of the declaration invoking the emergencies act. They were caught somewhat off-guard, though Kenney said, “I was expecting something like this, but I don’t approve.”
The inescapable question as one talks to the protesters is why hasn’t Trudeau talked to them? Three weeks ago he had a choice, he could have listened to their concerns, shown some degree of interest in them and in all likelihood stomped out the story. Instead, he made ridiculous claims about them being fringe racists, and stooges for American right-wingers. What he got for this choice was not just a Canadian crisis, but a global one. People around the world have gotten fed up with government overreach.
As conflict emerges on the streets of Paris, and the blockade of the border bridge outside of Detroit was ended, one has to ask if any of this would be happening had Trudeau simply met with these protesters when this all started. In the end, this arrogance and obstinacy from Trudeau and his government has only hardened the position of the protesters.
The fact is, no one but Fox News, The New York Post and other conservative U.S. major media outlets are talking to the truckers and their supporters.
Fascist Left media in Canada in their prejudiced and slanted coverage of the story, is even disparaging the word “freedom” claiming the word is a is being used by the so-called far Right to cause chaos and anarchy.
In a tremendously pro-Trudeau biased editorial Sunday, the CBC, state owned and operated, ran a story on Sunday with the headline "Why the word ‘freedom’ is such a rallying cry for protesters." A subheading reads, "The word has become common among far-right groups, experts say."
Can this be real? The Canadian government, through its media lackeys. are really running down the concept of freedom?
Meanwhile, the protest seems to be having its desired effect, at least in part. On Monday, Premier of Ontario Doug Ford announced that as of March 1st a slew of restrictions will be cut back. These include limits on indoor capacity and the vaccine passport mandate to enter venues. Ford claims these reversals were not because of the trucker convoy but "in spite of it." Maybe that is true, or maybe he feels the pressure.
Canada’s Fascist Left media,owned by the government, has called the protesters “white supermacists, agents of the American far right, then has made concessions to them that apparently will not be honored by the Trudeau government. (Photo: David Brooks/The New York Post) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The fact is, Trudeau is the target for defeat and many grassroots organizations are attempting to force a parliamentary vote of “no confidence” that would dissolve the government. The protests are accelerating those efforts and have inspired thousands of truckers in the U.S. to organize a similar protest that will attempt to bring the Biden administration to its knees regarding mandates.
U.S. truckers are planning the convoy after 50,000 Canadian truckers made their way to Ottawa in protest of their own country’s mandate. The U.S. truckers will drive from California to Washington D.C.
According to the Facebook group “Convoy to DC 2022,” created to organize the protest, the truckers describe themselves as “part of many large groups who believe in our founding fathers.” The group has more than 95,000 members as of Monday.
“We believe everyone has a voice. We support our freedom. Help us spread the word about this group and together we all can make it a better place.. God Bless America,” the Facebook group says.
If American truckers do not get vaccinated against COVID-19, they will not be allowed to cross the Canadian and Mexican land borders, KARK reported.
So now, in a mere three weeks, the position of the Canadian government has gone from, the truckers are white supremacists, to the truckers are agents of American right-wing interests, to making major concessions. Could these concessions not have been made or even discussed 21 days ago? Why not?
From the beginning of the pandemic and its myriad state-imposed restrictions the fear of many people has been that this grip on power will not be relinquished even when the medical emergency is abated. Trudeau’s response to the trucker protest can only solidify those fears.
It is anathema to the very concept of democracy, and indeed, freedom, for the leader of Canada to simply refuse to listen to the legitimate concerns of her people. The blatant lies of Trudeau and his media lapdogs in claiming they are not limiting those rights and liberties protected under the Charter of freedoms are the heights of hypocrisy.
The people of Canada, the U.S. and around the world have had enough.
What has resonated across the globe from this group of Canadians demanding their rights in the freezing cold is not just their words and willpower, but the absolutely shameless response from Trudeau, who at the start of this whole thing went so far as to go into hiding.
Hiding from what? Patriotic Canadians waving their flag and singing their anthem? If that is enough to scare Justin Trudeau then maybe Canada needs a leader with courage and fortitude, not a tinpot dictator who may well be running his Cuban father’s playbook.
Mike Nichols is an advocate of the counterrevolution with a four-step plan to defeat Leftist Fascism: We Organize. We Stand. We Resist. We Fight. He is a regular contributor to several conservative news websites and has a regular blog and Facebook presence at Americas Conservative Voice-Facebook.