OftenWrong

Like Mr. Trudeua says, they are not sending their best. They are sending racists and misogynists.

He’s not that young. It’s all fake like his politics, hair and socks. For he is Narciss, Like the harlot’s cheek, Beautified with plastering art, Someone get him to a nunnery.

Doesn’t matter to the truckers though. They started the convoy on their own dime. Don’t need no goddam leftist-lieberal gofundme.

Just want to point something out here if I may. .... One by one they fall. Because the truth is unstoppable. You cannot fool all the people, all the time.

1. Why thanks, but who is them? Every person is a person, after all. 2. Why not. The question isn't just what can be done now, since it may be too late to reverse this deal. Did the Canadian government negotiate in good faith on this with US officials? If not, the government certainly deserves to be told. Perhaps at last Mr. Trudeua has expended his good-faith political capital. 3. You have a point but it's too late for that now. Even if there's nothing to be gained, people still want to give the government a wuppin. Stock up on the popcorn.

Meanwhile Mr. Trudeua seems to be in hiding. Word has it he was always afraid of trucks when he was little kid. Yeah, he was like that.

A police officer spoke out in support of the convoy on social media. Official investigation by the Durham police force already underway. Expect her to be cancelled in the next few nanoseconds...

I am not the spokesman for the Freedom Convoy, if there even is one. The government flip-flopped more than once in their "decision". When at the last minute it was announced they were not going to do it, then we heard something else the next day. We all know what this is, what it sounds like. Political interference. Someone got a phone call. People are not that naive. I say that adds to the anger. That's why I say this issue is now about more than just the trucker mandate. The gofundme states a broader objective. Will it attract many protesters? Will it matter? Time will tell.

Who cares, I don't speak for anyone else, US truckers or otherwise. Maybe they are still working on organizing their protest, maybe because it hasn't kicked in yet or maybe they have more difficulty organizing themselves across state lines. Maybe the small amount of imports between Canada and the US doesn't affect them in the wallet as much as it does Canada. Pick your poison, fill your boots. Larger point is this almost explosive outpouring of support indicatives this means more to people than just the truck driver's vaccine mandate. I get the sense many are just begging for an opportunity to speak out, get the government to back down and put restrictions on the extent of their power to mandate. There is anger at Mr. Trudeau as well.

I know what it is, just that you think it's some kind of universal remedy for all that ails ya. But then, maybe you are right. Those meetings should be on the record. -> so is this convoy is now a general anti-measures/vaccination movement? ? Yes, they are 100% anti federal government over-reach. Should be right up your alley, I think.

Better stand WAY back, if they get as many trucks as some predict. A few tens of thousands? Even Americans are joining the convoy. I checked the gofundme. Just crossing $4M right now. It went up $300,000 since I got home from work. It's about 100,000 dollars/ hr. The biggest donors are actually companies, concrete and trucking. Some donating over $10k. This could be a historic event in the making.

Of course they will, which proves the point of this in a way. It's not about the vaccine, they are not all anti-vaxxers. It's about something else that needs to be corrected right now, right away. Before hair-boy goes too far.

Never mind the bollocks, man, what are you going on about with this all the time? Look, this here is about trucks. Trucks are for land lubbers, so of course you have no idea. ... Here's a good one. Trucks are already amassing in small towns around here in Eastern ON and heading for the highway, just like I knew they would! Link The web site is hacked, here's what I coped. A small convoy of a dozen passenger vehicles supporting protests by some Canadian truckers of pandemic regulations left 10 Acre Truck Stop and slowly rolled through Belleville's major streets on Sunday. The vehicles decorated in Canadian flags and signs left the truck stop on Wallbridge-Loyalist Road followed by a Belleville Police vehicle. They headed south to Dundas and Pinnacle Streets. It moved up North Front Street and to Bell Blvd before heading back to the truck stop. The convoy was in support of the Freedom Convoy 2022 that will see thousands of truck drivers and citizens leave British Columbia and Prince Edward Island for Parliament Hill Sunday. Many more truck drivers and civilians are expected to join the convoy at various access points across the country, including Highway 401 at Glen Miller in Trenton around 3 p.m. on Thursday afternoon. The convoy is expected in Ottawa on Friday. A dozen trucks from just the Belleville area is a lot of trucks. It's like, all of them! Go Truckers!

Called the "Freedom Convoy", hundreds of truckers have left BC. They will pick up many more from each province, as they come across! https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/freedom-rally-bc-jan-23-1.6324942 I know some good lads in town here, some of whom grew up to be truckers, I know they'll be filling 'er up for a spin up 416, send a message to them folks on the Hill. Hell, maybe I'm a renta truck, too.

What happens to them in those companies when they mess up? Immediate goners. If they don't make the grade, they're out. Next. In other words, there's a performance expectation in industry to make that kind of money. It does not compare at all to the situation in hospitals. Thus I postulate; once again your comparison is highly simplistic. Drawing false equivalency. IE bullshit, as you like to say. A liberal malaise for which there is no "treatment". Anyway sorry moderator. Back to trucks, et al.

The Sun article indicates it's a bad idea for government to be involved in funding media outlets at all, no matter who's getting some. Your whataboutisms while perhaps true do not take away from the fact that vast amounts of public money are being poured down the drain here. Not to mention what Canadians are getting in return: Government sanctioned misinformation.

Yes, but blame the unvaccinated who should be fired from work, fined and even possibly jailed. As my wife points out, well at least in jail they get their meals, free health care gym and internet. Even a university education...

Here's your answer. Why Ontario was a sitting duck for COVID-19 People in Ontario haven’t repeatedly endured some of the world’s most severe and longest pandemic lockdowns because of the unvaccinated. The lockdowns keep happening because of the almost non-existent surge capacity of Ontario hospitals, a problem that has been known about for decades and which governments of all political stripes ignored. Canada is in 25th place out of 26 developed nations with universal or near-universal health-care systems comparable to our own, in our number of acute care hospital beds — 2.1 per 1,000 population. Ontario, which spends 42 cents out of every dollar on health care — the province’s largest single expenditure by far — fares even worse. But it isn’t just a lack of beds that’s the problem. According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, Ontario had the highest administrative costs for health care in the country for 2019-20, just before the pandemic hit — 5.7% of total expenditures, a third higher than the Canada-wide provincial average of 4.3%. What I've said before... this is the result of hiring rich people's kids into cushy hospital administrator positions. Nice, life-long jobs starting at $100k/ year for junior position. Aye, there's the rub. The real problems need to be talked about and solutions offered up. Otherwise you'll get nothing but more of these irrational and hurtful mandates. Government needs to be kept in a little box, indoors, and not allowed out.

Let's just say, I know which side to butter the bread...

Timely article from Toronto Sun explains what's going in with government funding for media outlets. CBC will get more of your money mostly because it serves Trudeau Liberals In the 2015 election, the Trudeau Liberals promised CBC an extra $150 million per year in funding on top of the $1.1 billion in base funding. CBC’s annual government funding now stands at $1.4 billion, but it’s not enough. In the last election, Trudeau promised an additional $400 million over four years to make CBC less reliant on advertising. The real reason for the funding boost is that CBC’s advertising revenues have fallen dramatically over the last several years as viewers go elsewhere. At the same time as CBC is a threat to the public purse, they also remain a threat to a healthy private sector media ecosystem. Private broadcasters, online and print media outlets don’t start off with an extra $1.4 billion of government money in the bank. I await the defenders of CBC to provide their "hand-waving arguments".

Or we could start by providing enough housing for the elderly who need LTC. That would take pressure off hospitals that are being used to house the overflow. Up to 25% of beds are being used for seniors. But nahh. Lets keep making sad excuses why we cannot do things. Like sorry, we dont have the money. (burp)

We are being re-engineered for the new tomorrow. Mr. Trudeau’s dystopian vision of a nation with a very low carbon footprint. How low? Very, very low.

Your pathetic name calling in such a discussion is beyond dull and boring. What I said here both times is there is no cause. Sorry if you cannot fathom it but you are only thinking in a dualistic way. It’s either AC, or DC. And I’m startin to think it’s AC around here, if you know what I mean. ... Morality, you say? Fill your boots. I go with those who understand good and evil are part of the same whole. We have mastered it, transcended it. We hyperboreans...