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Looks like with the peasant truck drivers revolting the mainstream politicians and media controlled by the same donors are flailing around. Politicians now supposedly care about the economy after two years of destroying businesses and livelihoods, and giving you a bit of crumbs through CERB. The people had enough and exercising their right to protest. What are the politicians doing? 1. Stealing their fuel 2. Slandering and calling them names 3. Stealing their money 4. Making threats of police violence toward the people All because some wealthy folks are losing a bit of money. Shows that the parties who supposedly care about workers really don't care at all. They are there to serve the powerful and that's it

Certainly a better execution of organized, non-violent protest than seen in many other nations, including the USA. The current protester strategy has been effective because it is non-violent and appeals to a large minority of Canadians weary of Covid restrictions as well. The economic impact is supposed to be very painful...to prompt change. It is a methodic, more peaceful approach than maybe looting and burning down cities.

Actually, protests and transportation blockades are very Canadian, and have been used in the recent past for economic, environmental, and First Nations causes. The current protests remain peaceful for the most part.

Yeah we’ve moved into a new phase of world history where almost the entire spectrum of political parties has become out of touch with the actual workers who do essential work. There’s a supposedly “liberal” orthodoxy of ideas that people are supposed to agree with, but debate is considered radical and triggering. The people on top don’t see the log in their own eye on so many issues, especially free speech, but now it appears that most of our constitutional rights are also too “radical” to be honoured by our government, which knows better than Canadians what is good for them. Of course many members of our “Liberal” government are sanctimonious hypocrites. How many black people do they actually hang out with? When was the last time any of them chatted with farmers, truckers, or blue collar workers? I wonder who’s more exclusive, these politicians at their cottages or the truckers sitting around a fire pit? Who would be more welcoming? I, and I think most people consider themselves liberal in the classic sense of lessez faire, live and let live, “you do you” and “who am I to judge?” Our current Liberal Party in Canada has become more like a closed-minded left-wing Politburo. The NDP is much this way too. They make superficial judgements about the working people they’re supposed to represent and don’t really want to spend time among them. After all, these MPs are doing quite well financially and have had a pretty smooth ride under pandemic restrictions. Why wouldn’t people want to think exactly as they do? Our government has creeped into totalitarianism because our constitutional freedoms have been removed in the name of what they continue to define as an emergency, as other governments drop mandates and restrictions. We’re told to be patient, yet people have lost their livelihoods and continue to suffer under mandates that now clearly appear arbitrary. If there isn’t a clear and powerful reason to suspend our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, don’t suspend them. This entire protest can be ended with the stroke of a pen ending an executive order.

I am anything but religious. I go by science. I have often posted here about our disastrous Health care in Canada. I recently lost the closest person to me as a result of incompetent health care and overwhelmed doctors and nurses. I suggested that we must have two-tiered health care both private and public to take pressure off the overwhelmed public system, but majority of Canadians appeart to be against that. Unfortunately the society here is very leftist when it comes to Health care. As it is now our Health care cannot deal with full opening. Even with severe lockdowns at one point we had over 4000 covid patients in hospitals over 600 in ICU. Vital surgeries had to be cancelled. We will go back to where we were if we suddenly lift all restrictions.

Government must respond to peaceful protests. At least listen. Else after a time protests will no longer be peaceful since people know they are otherwise useless. Trudeau's attitude and words provoke more violence. The change I am hoping for is to expose Mr. Trudeau as an empty charlatan and vote him out in an election as soon as possible.

....yeah, smell.

You are the one saying it and I entirely get it why you would be saying it. Because once the limits and boundaries of the critical thought are crossed, and independent thought is no longer needed, no other lines or boundaries exist. Anything is possible. Russia, Germany, China, Cambodia, Russia again, China again whichever way you look, examples and warnings, warnings and more examples.

It's about -20 C in Ottawa with a stiff breeze but even MORE people are partying tonight. Amazing. Stay warm and LOAD SAFE.

Actually it's called principles.

You sick puppy. So you think that racking up points with government approved ideas and behaviour in order to have basic rights is okay? Wow

Borders have been blocked in Alberta and BC as well. The economic fallout may run much deeper than you think but we won't know that for awhile. How much it hurts the Liberals will depend a lot on how attractive the Conservatives can make themselves to the mainstream. One can only hope.

1. Not so rare...I am always aroused by excellence...and Canada has its moments as well, which I respect. 2. Better designed for scale and impact for the Canadian economic and political context. Down here we just shoot leaders. The thing I don't understand is why government levels did not have a better plan/contingency to protect what is arguably the most important transportation link(s) in the country. Wasn't somebody smart enough to point out this vulnerability years ago and plan for what to do ?

This one is remarkable, though, in that it was initiated and planned by Western Separatists with the goal of making the PM - elected by the east, in effect - to step down. In the end, the PM will stay put but maybe this will be good for national unity.

Castro Trudeau should be arrested and charged with crimes against humanity and we can give the Marxist the choice of either going to jail forever or go live in China. I would hope that he would take the latter. I do not want to have to spend any more of my tax dollars feeding and housing that pos forever. ?

Actually it is YOU and people like YOU, that put many out of work. And this is why we have the protests. You can not have a mandatory vaccination, where if the individual does not comply, they are left with no work and no other means of support. Nobody voted for this monstrocity of a system. As for election promises; is it not more important Trudeau plants those millions of trees he promised? Send the little moron our planting trees, instead of destroying the nation!

A bit nicer in Ottawa weather-wise. Another big day of festivities. Many residents expected to show. Counter protesters had a poor turnout yesterday. See if they can muster any support for Dear Leader. I still think it's a 50-50 chance he'll resign this week...or soon if he's still dug-in. It would solve many problems both for the Democrats in the US and Liberals in Canada. He will be under much pressure to take that long walk in the snow.

I would agree with that. Now thinking towards others as "misogynists", "racists" and "extremists" if not "terrorists", others that do not deserve an answer or even as much as noticing, would amount to what thing? I'm sure Papa Mao and Our Dear Farther Stalin could tell many good soul-warming stories. You may want to check out (but please don't share with me).

In Germany they voted on Hitlers platform too. What's your point? We have enough lunatics in this country who believe your job should hinge on a vaccine or a group of people's very existence is an item that is decided by the masses?

Meanwhile, in Ottawa, Portapotties are lined up around Trudeau's office. That's how Canadians sing "The Song of Angry Men."

This is where they were at with this morning's push: and that so reminded me of this:

One thing about these protests is I've seen quite a few first generation immigrants from places like Poland. They know first hand what it's like to live under tyranny and have been sounding the alarm about Comrade Trudeau for a few years now.

'There are people who are fiercely against the vaccination. They are extremists who don't believe in science. They're often misogynists, they are often racists. It's a small group that muscles-in and we have to make a choice in terms of leaders...in terms of the country...do we tolerate these people?' ---Dear Leader Justin Trudeau

If this was Germany in 1936, everyone of those demonstrators would be in Dachau at least a week ago.

"Full on NAZI" , what an ignorant thing to say. You demean every one of Hitlers victims by making such a childish comparison.

Maybe we should fix our healthcare system instead of using COVID as an excuse for failure. For what we spend (well above average) we're practically dead last in developed countries for capacity. Need to shed a lot of bureaucracy but there's no stomach for reform.

Trudeaus response depends on if he agrees with the protests or not. Because he agrees with BLM, they can ignore public health orders and burn buildings to the ground.

Five years after arguably the biggest scam in history, it turns out the Clinton campaign was paying to frame the Trump campaign for Russia collusion. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/clinton-campaign-paid-infiltrate-trump-tower-white-house-servers Very disturbing.

You're just tripping over corpses, aren't 'cha?

The quasi-democracy "everybody is happy here" beavertale is about to have run it's course. Back to the unadorned reality now: entitled elites without slightest working checks and controls by the society are running away with treating themselves in any way imaginable at public expense while producing hectic; poor quality; unreasonable, ineffective; inefficient and at times plain disastrous management of public matters. Conceptually, this is the third already, there's no principal difference nor clear separating line. If not checked, arrested, understood and corrected right here, it will be only a matter of time before it trickles to everyday life and it'll be the third world on the ground. First bells already ringing: stagnating incomes, rising costs, astronomical housing and now, indefinite restrictions, inflation and suffering small business economy.

You can bet that all the donations over the years to & from BLM and Antifa types faced no such hindrance. Take that knee for burning down the Walgreens, JT.

Just stop l-ing why wouldn't you? There are many here with working eyes and memory too.

You know if the people of Ottawa didn’t want to hear honking, they could have just moved. Right????

The wealthy elites in India said Trudeau was involved in fundraising and money laundering to prop up a farming insurrection in New Delhi, so they're sending funds to Canada to give Trudeau a taste of his own medicine.

If he does, there will be no reason for us to keep it, just as there is no reason to get rid of it they don't. All that would do is give unvaccinated US truckers free access to Canada while unvaccinated Canadians still couldn't go to the US.

No this is home. I lost about $60,000 in income over the last two years Oh right, and my wife I also had to face a couple of different deadly diseases that struck out of the blue on top of the pandemic. I've felt like a passenger trapped in the proverbial car that Grandpa was driving when he fell asleep at the wheel. For me it's been about having to rely on them. Yes I know people constantly remind me that of course we need to protect the vulnerable but the sincerity of that is a bit of a stretch when I know they mean go hide in your basement.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VFIPlg8v0-U From the same episode. It's basically what I (and others) have been saying for awhile on here. Even brings up Blackrock which is generally cast aside as a "right wing conspiracy" ?. Facts are Canadian politicians have HUGE investment in the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Patents exist whereby some of their donors are receiving huge kickbacks for every vaccine that's shoved into your arm. Want to know why Trudeau won't let it go even though 90% are supposedly vaccinated? Money. Greed. Nothing else.

Democrats strongly hint that Justin Trudeau is hurting their chances in 2022.

It's all part of the plan to politicize the pandemic. Trudeau and Biden can't really claim victory over covid if it's just a matter of omicron being weak AF. The vaxes have to be our saviour or Biden and Trudeau aren't our saviours. In fact, they'll just be remembered as undemocratic and in Trudeau's case, bigoted. Down in the States they're really trying to drive the point home that "Biden's successful distribution plan was the actual key to success, Trump's legacy was a distribution network that was failing Americans dismally" ?. Biden has nightmares about the words "Operation Warp Speed". TBH, Warp Speed was about more than just vaxes, it was also about therapeutics and testing kits. Biden and Trudeau haven't pimped therapeutics at all, that's why therapeutics have to be ignored and relegated to the shelf. Anyways, now they want to claim that getting our country to 99% vaccinated was the key to freedom, and they'll force it into every last person that they can before they give up.

If covid was more like ebola, and the jabs were functioning like actual vaccines, I could see the point of mandates, but if that was the case there'd be no need to force people to vaccinate. People would be fighting to get them.

Yes, I know what you mean. Catholic...

I’m trying to prevent extremism. I’m not even right-wing. Watch this from arguably the US left’s biggest influencer:

In the words of many on here "actions have consequences". As Ontario has put the creepy little bastard in charge of things, and have insisted that you shouldn't be able to stay employed without a vaccine, they can reap the consequences of having a major trade route disrupted. Even if the blockade comes down, it's still heavily blocked on the US side so good luck.

"My poll" is not mine. It's from IPSOS/ Global news. Please take your concerns of misleading polls to them, not me.

There has to be some consequences, or else you get no attention. Wholy peaceful protest is useless. It has to cause some discomfort. The government needs to be told to stand down, and it has to hurt them if they don't. Short term economic pain for long-term gain. I think they want to the government to do their thing, move in with the forces and take this all down. Get it all on video. The point is not to cause physical injury but political.

Tulsi Gabbard, by far the smartest and most useful Democrat politician since JFK, was on Tucker Carlson's show yesterday and made one of those points where you say to yourself "Why didn't I think of that?" She said that one of the main reasons why the Russia/Ukraine conflict is getting so much attention is because the military industrial complex needs the drama to justify [hate that word] more military spending, and they're like the lobbyist on steroids. She didn't mention this part, but before Congress approves new military hardware acquisitions, the Congressmen can randomly buy shares in the companies that are slated to benefit the most, Pelosi-style. I get that the US needs to show some grit so that Russia doesn't go too far, and I even feel like the US needs to ramp up production because China is going silverback right now, but I agree that the military industrial complex's boner is pressed against Biden's back right now.

Convince their representatives to call a vote of confidence in Parliament.

Beyond analogies (and from the viewpoint of reality that one was not among the greatest) we need to separate communication and condition, reality. While communications, including propaganda can strongly influence perception of the condition it cannot change it. Over time, if the condition does not change the pressure arising from the seen difference between the message (e.g. "free, egalitarian and democratic society") and the reality accumulates and creates discontent. That in its turn can manifest in a number of ways until something happens. The problems in this country are way beyond insufficient or inadequate communications. They are at the stage of a noticeable disconnect, conflict between the perceived reality ("free, egalitarian etc") and the actual one (housing, jobs, income disparity, tuition, deteriorating services..). Hiding these emergent conflicts with more and stronger propaganda will do no good in the longer run. For that, there are many, many examples. We need to be able to see, understand and solve problems and none of that is a given with the best plans and strategies on paper.

Why does it sound like another pompous-sounding nonsense? Works great though on those who never saw fish in water. The discontent is with the system that despite its capacities and promises is failing to deliver yet again. The standard of living for a large section of a population has been dropping for decades; and everyone can see that the system could do little, and cares to do, in honesty, very little anything of substance about it. It cannot see emerging problems; understand them; come up with effective working solutions; and implement them with real visible results. And after a while it comes back to the default state of hierarchical entrenched system: spending all or almost on itself and looking for reasons why nothing else could work.