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Unfortunately Canada isn’t as free as the United States, but the states also vary in their levels of freedom. California and New York states are marginally freer than most Canadian provinces right now, but Americans are fleeing California and New York for states like Florida and Texas. Even Democrats are making the move. When even members of the radical Democratic wing are vacationing in Florida to feel free again (AOC), well, actions speak louder than words. The point is that freedom has tremendous inherent value. The importance of the truck convoy is preventing government from being able to violate our rights and freedoms at will. In Canada, individuals don’t have discretion over their own healthcare. Don’t obey the mandates and your basic citizens’ rights are removed. It’s totalitarian.

now you pretend to care about small businesses yet when the government shuts them down entirely, you support it nice try, Boges no moral high ground for you

He’s strong. Solid, compelling, and won’t waffle on conservative principles. We need someone brave who laughs off the expected accusations of racism, misogyny, and extremism. Leslyn would make a great key cabinet member who could be PM later on. Right now Polievre is too strong to bypass.

Pierre Poilievre should be the next Prime Minister of Canada.

We had railway blockades in BC as well. They were treated with much more respect and patience by the leaders and politicians than the freedom convoy is. That illustrates how unevenly freedom is applied in our nation.

It should be up to each individual as to the risk they’re willing to accept. It’s not up to the government to decide for me.

No but he will bend a knee for BLM.

The main purpose of lockdowns is to spread out hospitalizations and deaths over a wider period of time. It’s not to save lives. You’re still under that false impression. Regardless, Johns Hopkins Study: Lockdowns Had ‘Little To No Effect On COVID-19 Mortality’ But Had ‘Devastating’ Effects On Society. https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf

Now there's a trucker convoy in Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phub0CZlFV8 It will keep spreading.

It is becoming increasingly clear the current Government does not represent the hinterland. Between carbon taxes which are crippling western industry, border mandates which are taking food off the table of the average Canadian, insults from elected leaders, few seats for the Liberals west of Ontario, and just a big disconnect with the "leadership" in Ottawa, leaders not honoring the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, etc. should the west consider demanding the same level of independence as Quebec and look at separating?

Great Britain ends all vaccine mandates. Canadians, oppose your government’s totalitarian policies. Defend the Charter of Rights and Freedoms! https://apple.news/ARXBSHRF9SFiLyITAYziCQA

The thing is that people overestimate the influence of 'detractors'. And something people from the West don't get: Ontario isn't enthused about the Liberals, I firmly believe that. An interviewer asking Stephen Harper had the gall to ask "Would you love your child if they were gay ?" and he properly said something like the question was ridiculous and of course he would. He was pragmatic, but - like Trudeau - not anyone to get excited over. He was thanked for taking Canada through the recession with a majority government and then after 9 years it was time to move on. I will say that perhaps people were excited about Trudeau for the first election (especially young people with no political knowledge) but that faded fast.

The climate issue is sketchy as a real issue to spend tax dollars on. Certainly if it’s a real thing, and it probably is, carbon taxes won’t do anything about it except squeeze Canadians further financially. Happening now. Simple green tax incentives and building code changes would do more without adding to our already high cost of living, but we need a CPC leader who can articulate that and who doesn’t care when the tree hugger meth addicts on pogey start their dumpster fires. Basically we need a PM who cares about bread and butter issues like jobs and cost of living and keeps the surly ignorant kids out of the press scrums. No identity politics either.

I hope you are wrong, i hope this gives some my hopefuls the nudge they need, as the conservatives need someone to bring the party back into play. Like Ambrose, well respected, might even steal some of Justins women support, she's is smart, charismatic, and is right of center enough to hold blue Tories and not far enough right to scare the red Tories.. but very doubtful. Peter MacKay, maybe... Rempel is a bulldog and passionate about her job, not as noisy as Poilievre but just as tenacious, not afraid to get into a scape. i could live with Pierre, but i'm not sure if he has the support.

These anarchists blockading and honking their horns continuously are the same kind of people who harassed and intimidated health care workers trying to get into hospitals.

Why not ? I keep hearing that Peter P. is unelectable (I don't know about Lewis) but it seems to be mostly due to personal attributes. Let's have a look at the list of Canadian politicians who didn't have the touchy-feelies since I have been looking at politics: Robert Stanfield John Turner Audrey McLaughlin Stephane Dion Michael Ignatief Stephen Harper just off the top of my head and just federally too... Actually ... now that I think of it only the last guy got elected ? But anyway - is that it ??? What if they put a sweater on him and bought him a damn dog ?

You are making a mockery out of yourself on a public forum. Protect our constitution by breaking the law!!!!!!!!! Really.

How can blocking a few roads be a means of overthrowing a government ? they may be a pain in the ass, but really have they been violent, have they made a move towards occupying the parliament...OKA did not work out well for the military, it's diminished reputation meant hardships like budget cuts, man power cuts and most Canadians developed a dislike for DND...to the point we were not allow to wear our uniforms out in public... and for a people who already don't like the military how do you see this working out... This is not like OKA they have not killed a police officer, that and i don't think your ready for a OKA event in down town Ottawa lots of Helo's flying at tree top level dropping smoke and bangers while armed soldiers with live rounds assaulting dug in positions with armoured vehs including LAVS , and TANKS, lets not forget the massive M109 arty guns parked in the back ground ready to be used if nessicary as a show of force...had one shot been fired that day, , it would have turned out to be one of Canada's darkest days...it would have been a a disaster, with mass causalities, that included men, women and small children.. Sorry the last thing our soldiers want to do is harm or kill Canadians, If your police can not do it, they will eventual have to get tougher or wait it out... force is not the only option here.

He could have went out to address the people protesting...what a novel idea. Instead, Ezra Levant made better political hay than every Conservative with the possible exception of Pierre Poilievre who seems less chickenshit than most.

It'll just be another punching bag that has the support of Social Conservatives. No realistic chance to win a Federal election if he/she sticks to a Social Conservative platform, but will be removed if he/she doesn't pay fealty to those who handed him/her the leadership. Time is a Flat Circle.

I now see why you are misguided. Its really amazing to see people like you that don't actually read what was said. Why are you talking about hospitalizations and ICU when your initial point and the recent discussion point is about SPREAD. Here is what I said: There are four main categories when it comes to vaccine efficacy: 1. Prevention of Infection (Transmission) 2. Prevention of Hospitalization 3. Prevention of Serious Hospitalization (ICU) 4. Death My original comment on my first rebuttal to you PLUS my comment above are about the vaccine's inability to stop transmission. Fully vaxxed people are still getting the virus and spreading it at statistically similar rates to unvaxxed. Even the triple vaxxed people like your hero JT are contracting the virus. Does this suggest to you that the vaccine is stopping spread??? Instead of arguing this point, you in turn argue on Points 2 and 3. I will gladly have a conversation on those too if you want but its kind of pointless if you're not going to argue this properly. Well...let's take a look at the Ontario cases per 100k. If you look at start of this data set on Nov 5, the cases for unvaccinated were 4X the amount of the vaccinated. That ratio kept lowering as we approached December and then on Christmas day, the cases per 100k for the vaccinated actually overtook the unvaccinated (You see that Green line spiking up). This was Omicron. As you can see by Jan 5, the fully vaccinated were 1.3X the amount of cases compared to the unvaxxed. Does this mean the vaccine was causing you to catch the virus....NO. The reason the fully vaxxed were catching it is because they were the ones allow out in these critical spaces that the mandates were supposed to protect. In other words...the mandates weren't just useless but were actually harmful as they provided a false sense of security allowing fully vaxxed to spread this. As you can see now that things are calming down, both rates are very close to each other which again suggests the vaccine is doing nothing to stop the spread. Remember....there are hundreds of experts and some of them have different views. You saying the experts agree is clearly not the case as countries around the world have already removed their mandates and provinces are taking the next steps to do the same. Mandates are not useful with Omicron....plain and simple.

I want out of Canada right now. I have British citizenship but I can’t roll the dice with employment for my kids’ sake. I keep hoping most Canadians will wake up to the fact that their basic freedoms are suspended indefinitely without reasonable justification, but I think many people here have given up. No one wants to be fired or canceled for questioning government policies. Look how average people supporting the convoy are treated by government and media. The PM won’t even meet with the leaders.

I thought Trump was bad but this is much worse. No tyranny like benevolent left/liberal "for your own good" tyranny. Sure. Let's see it play out again like it never happened before. Bring it on.

Farmers break through police barricades trying to prevent them from joining the convoy and new blockade of the boarder crossing.

This appears to be the case, as governments have severely underestimated the scale of direct and indirect protest support, being far more diverse than just truckers irritated by mandates. Participation also appears to be larger than sizable logging protests/arrests, First Nations barricades, or the 2010 G20 acts of civil disobedience. It appears that a significant number of Canadians are just fed up with all of the COVID-19 jerk arounds and impacts on daily routines, livelihoods, and freedoms. As an outsider, it is an amazing thing to watch happening in real time from Canada. I just saw some video of farmers successfully defeating a police/sheriff highway blockade....using their huge John Deere tractors. Cops had no chance of stopping them.

It’s interesting. I had a few conversations with well-respected people in my organization’s community the past couple of days. The impression overall is that Trudeau’s communications and PR people have made an unconvincing attempt to paint the protests as radical. Ottawa’s own police force said that there haven’t been any riots or violence. The so-called vandalism of national monuments consisted of a flag and sign on Terry Fox saying, “Mandate Freedom” and some urine at the foot of the war memorial which might have come from a dog. The protest has been a mostly folksy grassroots movement supported by families who are desperate to get back to having normal lives They are protesting government overreach Thank God! Protests will soon take place in Quebec where Premier Legault has realized that the public is against further alienating unvaccinated essential workers and restrictions in general. I think most provincial governments and the federal government are placing a losing bet associating themselves with continued restrictions, which are absolutely a violation of Charter rights. The opposition is strong but needs unification and a confident clear message that laughs off the inevitable attempt to use identity politics to discredit valid concerns. Our mainstream media is still largely supporting the government, but the cracks are growing. The Conservative leader’s attempt to mimic Liberal messaging to win support is a clear failure. People are crying out for a real opposition, a real choice that’s against government overreach, high taxes (including carbon taxes), and brutal regulations on resource development. The Wall Street Journal has it pegged: https://apple.news/A7oaj5j5dRe6b0iZdrMH48g

Indeed....from the CBC: Maybe Trudeau can find some tanks to use as well. Edited to add: Looks like heavy equipment tow truck operators are not so willing to cooperate with government requests for removal services.

Alberta and Saskatchewan are not anymore hardworking than the rest of Canada. We are sitting on a vast fortune in uranium and abundant oil. We are born rich. So are Ontario and Quebec blessed with geography, Bc with multiple resources etc.

The country owns the pipeline, not the West and the only reason we bought it was because we drove the company that was going to build it completely out of the country.

Egerton Ryerson was a champion of Indigenous. Sadly, his name is being erroneously attached to residential schools, which he did not found. It appears that an angry ignorant mob is being allowed to rewrite history. Where is the university president? Where are the adults? I guess we pretend that orange is purple. If we repeat a lie long enough... Some facts about Ryerson: “EGERTON RYERSON WAS deeply interested in the lives and education of Indigenous people. As a young man he was appointed to the Credit mission, home of the Mississaugas. At the Credit Mission, located in what is today the City of Mississauga, the 23-year old set out in 1826/27 to learn Ojibwe (Anishinaabemowin) and worked in the fields with the people of the settlement. “I was at that time a perfect stranger to Indians, and but little acquainted with their customs,” Ryerson reported in the American Methodist Magazine in 1827. “But the affectionate manner in which they received me, and the joy they appeared to feel on the occasion, removed all the strangeness of national feeling, and enabled me to embrace them as brethren, and love them as mine own people.” The first Methodist missionary to live with the Credit Mississauga, Ryerson joined their fight to secure a title deed to their lands at the mouth of the Credit River, 12 miles west of Toronto. He stood by them to protect their remaining land base against the ever-encroaching British Canadian settlers (by this time, Indigenous peoples constituted less than 1% of the Canada West population). His hope, indeed the progressive way of thinking at the time, was to help Indigenous communities become farmers. He won their respect. The Credit Mississauga admired Egerton, who rolled up his sleeves, ate and lived and toiled alongside them. At a council fire in December 1826 the Credit Mississauga “adopted” the 23-year-old, giving him the Ojibwe name of a well-regarded recently deceased chief: “Cheechock” or “Chechalk,” who had belonged to the Eagle doodem. The name “Chechalk” meant “Bird on the Wing.” Ryerson also became a life-long friend of future chief Kahkewaquonaby (Sacred Feathers), known as Peter Jones.“ (Dorchester Review) https://apple.news/ABfZta7YmRWu7_41PuXf0RA https://www.dorchesterreview.ca/blogs/news/the-imbecile-attack-on-egerton-ryerson

So happy fake conservative is out.

Hoping it's Pierre. I like that he had the courage to go talk to the truckers. Didn't hide in his ivory tower like Trudeau. Need a PM that's less talk more action. Don't care if they are left or right wing.

I liked jack Layton. I was sad when he passed.

In 1972, Bob Standfield lost by 100 votes sprinkled across ridings across the country. That is why it is so important to get out the vote. He was "the best Prime Minister we never had."

And it was you "kind of people" who smashed his semi truck into one of the convoy trucks - which is actually unlawful. But you want the army called in for illegal parkers. ?

According to a study out of John Hopkins today, the lockdowns or restrictions did very little/nothing to prevent deaths. Just food for thought....

It sounds like the authorities allowed the FN to shoot the police but didn't allow them to shoot back. I am somewhat convinced that is what happened. The police and army had their hands tied behind their back while the FN could shoot whoever they wanted. That's how things work in this country.

Police cars are not able to move heavy trucks. Armored vehicles only owned by army can. Basically what you are suggesting is that if a group of strong angry mob takes over a place (a bank, a town, a city, government), then they should be allowed to get away with it and let them win or do what they want including breaking the law in order to avoid possible bloodshed? So guys if you wish to rob the central bank then do it in huge numbers with large trucks and law enforcement will not intervene fearing bloodshed, right? Not a good analogy but basically that is what you are saying. But at least you agree these people are endangering the public.

On reflection, I think Michelle Rempel Garner would be acceptable, but I doubt she will run. We really need to have a Red Tory leading the Party. We need pragmatism and intelligence over ideology.

CRA lied about truckers looting Ottawa office - The Western Standard (westernstandardonline.com) Their reply to being caught lying: "No Comment."

Amazing howvthey are hating on Russia right now when our politicians have turned the country into a third world dictatorship in the name of "safety". People arrested for going to church. You'd think this was North Korea

Kind of like when groups protested the rail way lines in Ontario, or blocking construction of the new pipeline...those lasted weeks months...protests don't become illegal becasue they inconvenience some... The center of the world is Ottawa, thats everyone target for protests...you would think they would know that by now...

...and here's the scary part. If it was built in a lab by humans, what is it supposed to do? Anyone? Here's another scary thought. Our betters get richer by the second and would dearly love a planet with, say....2 billion people on it. You're an insect to them...in the way of paradise. Westerners are high maintenance and want stuff...

I ran across this today, maybe we all should be rethinking our restrictions.. i hope this is all fake news, New COVID Variant NeoCoV Found, Could Be Deadlier And Incurable (onlymyhealth.com)

OK so the wife and I use to attend a bible study in our local and a couple from Portland moved to Canada. I thought Canadians were bad, but these guys were looney toons liberal. They went on on how they want to change their father because he has too many guns and is too conservative. That is how the liberal left think. The funny part is they had to move back to Oregon because the cost of living was out of control in Canada. LOL.

Study from John Hopkins shows lockdowns did very little to stop Covid-19 deaths. https://www.kabc.com/2022/02/01/johns-hopkins-report-lockdowns-did-not-work/

The same thing that happens to chicken little for saying "the sky is falling!" too many times. And the boy who cried wolf. Ahh, what we have learned. Now everything old is new again.

No that’s enough of mandates and restrictions after two years of lockdowns, masks, and vaccines up the wazoo. Let people protect themselves as they see fit.

No offense, but the Atlantic provinces are heavily subsidized by the "west". You should be eternally grateful for the enormous amount of money that has flowed into your province. How would you feel if it were the other way around and the west was siphoning billions from the Atlantic provinces for decades?

lol you are talking nonsense dude. conversion therapy is wrong.. bottom line deal with it.