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  1. When the hospitals are overflowing with Covid patients and thousands of other people have had their heart and cancer surgeries cancelled or postponed, nurses and doctors are burnt out, and hospitals are running short of staff, we have a small percentage of the population going to Ottawa protesting that their rights are denied.  Many outbreaks exist in senior's care homes across Canada as well.  Yet these thousands of people going to the protest are demanding all restrictions and mandates be lifted so they can go back to living their life the way they want.  What kind of picture does that send?  We can see how self-centred and me first many are.  They obviously could care less about those in our society who are older, those with health care issues, those on waiting lists that may be dying right now and the general population that could be threatened with Covid if there are no restrictions.   I don't see anything redeeming at all about these protests.

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  2. 1 hour ago, Nationalist said:

    Ah...the Yankee solution rears its ugly head. And should nobody actually try to over throw the government. Will they invent an excuse?

    Promoting the idea of over throwing the government to a mob of people descending on the location of government is itself illegal.

  3. 2 minutes ago, West said:

    This is a protest of Canadians opposing draconian measures. If foreigners are in favor of it, don't see how that diminishes the protest. Just more smear pieces. 

    The great majority of population support the mandates and health restrictions.  So having the anti-vaxxers and anti-mandate people from other countries join in the protest proves nothing.  Also mobs of white supremacists, racists wearing yellow badges to hijack the Holocaust for their cause, doesn't mean anything and they don't govern Canada.  These foreigners are actually just making things worse and generating more hate across the country.  One guy using a big semi transport truck to block roads is not a democratic protest.  It is civil disobedience.

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  4. 19 minutes ago, Zeitgeist said:

    One of the writers of our Constitution, Brian Peckford, is challenging mandates and restrictions on constitutional grounds.  

    Anybody is free to challenge the mandates in court.  But he doesn't have much chance of success.  I gave the link a little earlier this morning which explains why.  Basically the rights in the Charter are subject to reasonable limits by government (which is also in the Constitution) such as a pandemic and the need for government to take measures to protect the populations.

  5. 17 hours ago, Aristides said:

    I've always considered myself a fiscally conservative social moderate and voted as such. The direction the CPC seems intent on heading increasingly makes me feel I have nowhere to go.

    I supported Conservatives for last 30 years at least, but it is doubtful I can support them any more.  They are self destructing.  I don't think they have a chance of forming government in the foreseeable future.  Politics is taken over by the radical progressives and liberal/left.  Canada will pay a heavy price.

  6. 1 minute ago, myata said:

    Interesting. You mean with all the exspert policies in place, including masks, next to mandatory vaccinations and another lockdown? And that means we need more exspert policies, right? Makes so much sense!

    By the way, did you know that there are places that never had a lockdown, yet?

    And there are places that are in the fog and places with blue sky.  So what?

  7. 16 minutes ago, Zeitgeist said:

    That’s BS.   Thousands of truckers and regular Canadians, middle of the road people, are demanding the restoration of freedoms and respect for our constitution.  You cannot maintain totalitarian measures indefinitely without accountability.  Unfortunately the Liberal government of Canada refuses to remove its arbitrary draconian restrictions and mandates.  The Liberals are labeling anyone who opposes mandates or vaccines as right-wing radicals.  Regular everyday people at the centre of the political spectrum are seeing through the tactics to maintain government overreach.  There is nothing radical or unreasonable about the arguments behind the truck convoy.

    However, if the government and the media they fund are able to sell this narrative of a threat (a new Red Menace to be put down as the Spanish Inquisition trampled on religious freedom), everyone loses because free speech loses.  The Yanks won’t be able to bail out Canadians if Canadians are unwilling to defend rights and freedoms.

    Court challenges are coming due to current unconstitutional government measures   There is no guarantee that these challenges will be successful.

    Mandate freedom   

     

    The Charter of Rights may not work to stop mandates according to this article.  Therefore your claim that it violates the Constitution may not be valid simply because we are in a global pandemic and governments have to take measures to protect the populations.

    “Section 1 of the charter says ‘all of the rights and freedoms in the charter are subject to such reasonable limits as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society,’” explained Milne.

    “What that means is that there is this kind of proportional, reasonable approach that governments can actually limit people’s rights so long as they have a very good reason and can demonstrate why. A global pandemic might just be one of those reasons."  

    Truth Tracker: Do vaccine mandates violate Canadians' charter rights? | CTV News

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    With 1,000 COVID-19 deaths already, January is on track to be one of Ontario's deadliest pandemic months   Unquote

    If Omicron is mild, why are so many people dying in Ontario? | CBC News

    The number of people being hospitalized is greater and the number of people in the ICUs is greater per capita with Omicron.  Since more people are catching Omicron, the total number of deaths is pushed up simply because of the greater number of people getting sick with it.  So it is foolish to oppose mandates and Covid restrictions because it is still a serious pandemic which is killing lots of people and causing long Covid for many others.  A thousand deaths in Ontario in the past month is a lot of deaths.  We should be concerned about it and continue to do what we can to protect our fellow man and society.

  9. This convoy is just an excuse for every possible anarchist, anti-government, Communist s__t disturbers, criminal, anti-Covid restrictions malcontents, Marxist anarchists, fascist anarchists and revolutionaries, to raise cain.  Now we are finding that a lot of money coming into the GoFundMe campaign is coming from anonymous sources and foreign unidentified sources.  There could be a lot of money from unidentified corporations, businesses and extreme right wing groups for example who oppose the Covid restrictions that effect businesses.  There could be a lot of money from foreign actors who oppose our democratic system and want to subvert it by causing division and anarchy.  It is no "truckers convoy".  It is now a convoy of every radical anarchist who has their own agenda.  This is particularly true of the GoFundMe campaign.  The government should bring in the army and not be caught with their pants down like the Jan.6 riots in the U.S. capital.

  10. Just now, West said:

    Do you believe Christians should obey wicked leaders? 

    I do not believe the measures taken by government to protect citizens against Covid are wrong.  I believe the authorities are acting in the interest of Canadians.  It is wrong to say they are "wicked leaders" when they are protecting the health and well-being of Canadians. 

    Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix are just now giving a Covid-19 update.  The work is not done.

    Dr. Henry is just going through the history of the battle against Covid, on Global TV, since it began in 2020 for each month.  Nobody could question the steps taken.  They were the best that were possible with the resources and knowledge available during the pandemic.  About 2,588 people died of Covid in B.C. during that time and the health care system has been stretched to the limit.  But thousands of lives have been saved and we are learning how to deal with it and 90% of the people have received their first shot. 

    Dr. Henry is just reminding us how we need to wear our masks, stay home when sick, and we are looking forward to the time hopefully in the near future we can get back to doing more of the things we like to do.  She reminds us that Covid will be with us for some time.  It is not finished with us yet.  Next fall there will be transmission again.  She is hoping we will get to the point when we will not need extraordinary public health measures but everyone will take the measures we should as individuals.  She says the people of B.C. have followed the public health measures, made it safer for everybody, and our collective action has made a difference.  

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    “Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.” Romans 13:1

    God is of the highest authority. He is the one who created all other authority. This verse says that every soul should be subject to Him and His power. He has ordained each of those in authority, and they cannot do anything outside of His power.

    Trust Him and His authority over everyone and everything. Nothing surprises Him or worries Him. He always knows what to do. There is no authority on this earth that is there without the control of the Lord. He is still in charge whether the authority listens to Him or not.   Unquote  15 Rewarding Bible Verses About Obedience (to God, Parents & the Law) (christianwalls.com)

    The Ottawa police announced those who break the law will be prosecuted.  This is as it should be.  The whole idea of opposing health regulations, restrictions, mandates, masks which have been authorized and ordered by authorities is wrong.  Of course those who do not believe in God and the Bible are anarchists.  Canada has more than it's share of these people as we are seeing.  As I have said before, the turning away from God has it's consequences and a nation without God has no solid foundation and can descend into chaos, anarchy, and self destruct.

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  12. 2 hours ago, myata said:

    Until and unless convincing objective evidence is provided, reviewed and discussed would it be too much to ask to qualify it with a brief but informative addition: "to me"?

    The evidence has been presented widely on the media constantly for the last two years.  Where have you been hiding?  The fact is that if you are on here posting anti-Covid measures, you have adopted an anarchistic, irrational stance and you will listen to nothing.  Go ahead and have your fun.  Just don't catch Covid or you will be begging for forgiveness.

    O'Toole has committed Hari Kari by foolishly defending freedom over promoting vaccination as the solution to this crisis.  He is finished as a leader.  Cannot be taken seriously in anything he says.  Fighting on the side of so-called freedom fighters in this pandemic is the most insane thing he could have done.  Revolting.

  13. 21 hours ago, myata said:

    Some interesting quotes on ending mask and passport mandates (BBC). Mandatory masks are gone including in schools, immediately.

    "We must learn to live with Covid in the same way we live with flu"

    Looking ahead, Mr Johnson said the government would set out its long-term strategy for living with coronavirus.

    Governments have no unlimited privileges to impose restrictions on citizens whenever they like and for however long they wants. All and any restriction must be necessary, accountable and proven to be effective.

    This is also an important, even critical test for reason-based democratic governance. If the cases remain under control and no disaster ensues it would be difficult to deny that restrictive policies are unnecessary; not effective and are dragged out beyond reasonable and justifiable artificially, with no oversight or accountability.

     

     

     

    The UK under Boris Johnson has been an unmitigated Covid disaster with a huge loss of lives.  I wouldn't trust anything BJ says or does.  He is now under huge pressure to resign after holding parties during Covid restrictions while everyone else was locked down.  We are still in the middle of the pandemic and it still seriously harms a lot of people.  Masks, vaccination, and social distancing still make a lot of sense and will for the undetermined future.  

  14. 90% of Canadians are vaccinated and most don't agree with people not being vaccinated.  The great majority of people support mandates.  The Conservative Party is self destructing.  They started self destructing when they chose O'Toole with his liberal agenda and now they are supporting the anti-mandate, anti-vax people which are only about 10 to 15% of the population.  They are really digging themselves into a deep hole which they will never get out of for the foreseeable future.  O'Toole and some of the radical anti-Covid restriction MPs in his party are taking them down a losing path.  This will not end well for the Conservative Party.  I can't see the majority of grass root conservatives, which are generally older people supporting them.  Many people over 50 have health issues and can't afford to risk dying from Covid.  A poll was done and the largest segment of the population that support the Covid restrictions and mandates are in the older age bracket and 50% of the people below age 35 support the Covid restrictions as well.  So I really don't understand O'Toole's reasoning.  He is making a grave mistake in supporting the convoy and that gang.  They are totally out of touch with reality.  Sad.

  15.   I think the government and native bands owe it to the public to exhume the remains and determine all the facts in the presence of trustworthy witnesses and forensic experts.  The 37 million Canadians had nothing to do with this.  Yet the media, politicians, native leaders lay this on everyone continually.  We deserve some answers as to what exactly happened and what is the true story behind these alleged unmarked graves.   There is contradictions in the media's reporting.  One day we heard there were 50 of the 93 graves at the Williams Lake residential that sounded like they were separate from the residential schools students.  But the media did not make this clear.  Then later the media reported that there are 93 unmarked graves.  They show pictures which show a large area of grave markers as if it is a normal cemetery.  This just adds more questions about what exactly they are reporting. 

    There have also been many grave allegations about what went on in the schools but with no clear details and substantiated facts of what exactly happened, how do we know how, when, what and who was involved.  The things alleged to have occurred sound like crimes.  Why are they not being investigated by the police and proper information being reported through the media?  All of this just leaves a lot of unanswered questions and no accountability.  This kind of reporting and unproven allegations solves nothing and creates a lot of hostility resulting in things like burning down and vandalizing churches and increased radicalization of progressives who are not even native.

    In fact, it has already been stated that the Kamloops graves did have markers on them back in the mid 20th century but they were made of wood and left to rot away.  A priest apparently tried to tell people back in the 60s to maintain the graveyard properly, but nobody paid attention.  But this is never mentioned by the mainstream media.

  16. 6 minutes ago, Zeitgeist said:

    You’ll never get out of it then.  

    If you don't believe the authorities and powers that be, what can anyone say?

    "1  My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; 2  So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;" Proverbs 2:1 KJV

  17. 2 minutes ago, Zeitgeist said:

    You’ll never get out of it then.  

    I'm doing my part and hope to stay alive.  I would be a fool to choose to have no restrictions and no health guidelines.  Millions have rejected the health advice and restrictions and hundreds of thousands have paid for it with their lives or health.

  18. 14 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

    You just have to make it sound like Trudeau said to do it, then you can even get them to eat the shoe if you want. 

    Don't forget there are people of all political stripes who reject the instruction and wisdom of God in the Bible.  It is not strictly a left right thing.  

  19. 1 hour ago, Zeitgeist said:

    We’re already almost universally vaccinated.  We can’t vaccinate much further.  Are we to live restricted lives in masks forever?  We have to accept the constant presence of Omicron.  Let people make their own risk assessments and take precautions as they see fit.  No coercion necessary.  It wouldn’t improve our situation.  

    We are stuck in the middle of a pandemic even if it has evolved to the latest variant.  The only hope to get out of this is vaccinations and restrictions.

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  20. 4 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

    His painting sure doesn't inspire confidence. He looks like someone that you could beat up with one hand.

    I probably would have been willing to follow him after the P o' A battle though. Better late than never. 

    Sorry, you were replying to someone else.

  21. 2 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

    You just have to make it sound like Trudeau said to do it, then you can even get them to eat the shoe if you want. 

    Not following that, but people who reject God's wisdom found in the Proverbs and Bible make that choice themselves.  Everyone makes their own bed and must lie in it.

  22. 10 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

    Having knowledge & wisdom just means that you find leftists unbearable. 

    The kind of wisdom and knowledge referred to in the Proverbs and the rest of Bible does not mention political parties or political stripes, but if the leftists oppose the Bible and it's teachings, then of course they are opposed to God's wisdom and knowledge.  In other words if the shoe fits leftists, I guess they would have to wear it.   People who reject knowledge and wisdom made that choice themselves.

  23. 2 hours ago, Queenmandy85 said:

    1. Many of the recent immigrants to Canada are caucasian, but they are predominantly from Muslim and Hindu nations, but with a strong British connection. There are many immigrants from Hong Kong who also share our British connections.

    2. There are strong similarities between Islam and the Roman faith.

    3. Why all this concern with marxist. The Communists only received 3900 votes in the 2019 election.

    4. President Xi is not a Moaist any more than Saddam was a Muslim. He is a nationalist kleptocrat.

    5. More pertinent to the discussion, how could the Chinese government use a mortgage to exert pressure on a Canadian politician? John Handcock owed creditors in England 100,000 Pounds Sterling in 1776 pounds. How much influence did the British exert on that deadbeat?

    6. American Conservatism lost the first American civil war (the American Revolution) and most of the conservatives left. Some how, those creator endowed inalienable rights were only given to the Whigs and the Conservatives were robbed, murdered and driven into exile. 

    7. What difference does a person's ethnic background make? People are people. It amazes me how fast new Canadians adapt to Canadian culture. (Ever listen to the Punjabi version of Hockey Night in Canada.?)

     

    People are different in various fundamental ways.  They are not the same.  It has nothing to do with skin colour or race.  Sure people adapt to sports or certain forms of lifestyle, but many retain their ancestral culture.  They do not accept our Judeo-Christian culture.  Many hardly speak any English and mainly stick to their own ethnic groups who speak their foreign languages.  But the problem is they are often open to liberal, Marxist ideas because they do not believe or understand Judeo-Christian beliefs which reject Marxism, progressivism, Socialism.  They are open to those ideas which is one reason liberals are so glad to bring millions of them into Canada.  Why do you think they have fought civil wars in Africa, Central America and other places.  They cling to their tribalist mentality and fall for Marxist ideas and progressivism.  A good example is Jagmeet Singh who clings to Sikhism and said the Communist revolution in Cuba lifted the people up.  Never mind that it killed thousands of people, imprisoned thousands more, and deprive the people of their fundamental freedoms.  He may have even been born in Canada but obviously has the same religious beliefs as his ancestors and doesn't believe or accept conservative values.  The NDP is a strong defender of progressivism, abortion on demand, same-sex marriage, etc.  The Liberals are much the same, which is why many immigrants support them and Liberals/NDP promote immigrants as their base with all the energy they can.

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