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There’s no perspective on just how left Canada has become. People are worried about losing abortion rights in a country where it’s legal to abort up to the day before a baby is scheduled for delivery and Trudeau said that anyone who isn’t pro choice can’t have a government funded job? People are worried about LGBTQ rights in a country where conservative mayors attend Pride parades and the major banks and schools fly rainbow flags? Canada is out to lunch on the meaning of centrist policies, let alone conservative ones. There are no conservative policies in Canada. Putin knows this and funds green activists here as he expands oil and gas production. It’s a joke. The Canadian electorate has been taught to worry about weird shit. We barely have a military and we’ve undermined our resource development, yet the government actively seeks to reduce citizens’ rights and piles carbon taxes on top of sky high gas prices. It’s insane. Trudeau and Singh have completely sold out working people and families for some creepy notion of an international green totalitarian post-national state. They’ll get re-elected. It’s a one-party system and the opposition are eternally construed as racist-fringe-Nazi both by government and state-funded press. There’s no outside to the Liberal Party of Canada. No free press either.

Turbans are fine and respect for people of different religious backgrounds is important. It would be in poor taste to start going after politicians for their garb. My disappointment with Singh is that he’s turned his back on workers. Doesn’t he appreciate how many Sikhs or Indo-Canadians are truckers and blue collar workers? Doesn’t he see how gas prices are punishing working people?

Yeah none of it matters, Michael. Nothing to question or consider.

What happens when the rules-based country removes constitutional rights? How far does your trust of our government extend? I’d argue that we’re seeing a lot of cowardice and misplaced trust of dubious government these days. It’s not even especially hidden. People are in denial because too much has happened for many people to process. Just getting accurate information is hard now. All I know is we should be wary of attempts to strip away rights, and there have been attempts, some successful. Sadly, I think even those who are worried about government overreach are naive because we don’t have explanations from leaders. It’s all dismissed as conspiracy nonsense from the “tinfoil hats” people.

Your attitude demonstrates why we should be worried.

So…aren’t you concerned? Shouldn’t government have to explain where they stand in relation to plans like the 2030 Agenda? I mean, they’re members and supporters of the international organization promoting these plans.

I just worry that we’re going to see much more government control on a permanent basis. I hope that this period of opening up isn’t an interlude. If there’s major economic damage, governments will provide support, but this won’t come without a price. The cost of admission could mean accepting conditions and a level of control we’ve never experienced. Actually we’ve already had a two year test-run. The population is conditioned to accept directives that are a total gutting of constitutional rights. We have to make sure that as new “crises” arise further overreach doesn’t become a fixture in our lives. The danger is real and our government is playing with very concerning and undemocratic ideas. Freeland is a Trustee on the WEF. That means something. The reaction to the protests was scary. The freezing of bank accounts is unprecedented. Trudeau still won’t even discuss the removal of vaccine mandates and passports.

He’s not tuned into what’s happening, but maybe that’s just how it’s going to be for many people, especially older people. Hopefully they’ll get to finish out their lives without being heavily impacted by loss of freedoms and other problems. They already are, but the pandemic fear factor has justified much of the infringement on rights in their eyes.

We don’t have enough information in our media about the neo-Nazi movements in Ukraine that are also involved in this conflict. They’re concerning. Of course Russia’s invasion is deeply troubling.

People have to do some research on the Great Reset and Agenda 2030. These are World Economic Forum plans and Canada’s government is heavily influenced by the WEF. The idea is to create a system of digital identification for communications and banking that government can access. We already have digital vaccine passports that we’ve used to access freedoms that are supposed to be the right of all Canadian citizens. Your “credit score” can be based on criteria that don’t just relate to level of debt or income. It means that citizens who don’t support government policies can be de-platformed up to and including losing the right to work and having one’s bank account frozen. We could see state takeovers of property in the case of economic collapse or loan defaults, which would put people in a state of conditional use or lease of government property That’s the collectivization component: “You will have nothing and be happy.” Basically obey the government mandates and you get access to whatever government deems essential or necessary Imagine only being able to buy items on an essentials list Keep in mind that certain rights have already been deemed non-essential during the pandemic, such as recreational travel and attending religious services (which is actually an infringement of the right to religious freedom). Bills like C-11 are about setting criteria for online communications and giving government the right to shut down providers of communications that fall into categories that they define. “The legislation has been designed to advance consumer interests, as opposed to being based upon human rights principles, and has been broadly critiqued by experts on the basis that the legislation would not adequately address issues of meaningful consent, de-identification, or data mobility.” (The Munk Centre) People can downplay or ignore the tremendous examples of and attempts at government overreach that we have seen throughout the pandemic and that we continue to see with the Emergencies Act, the freezing of the bank accounts of protesters, the deeming of supporting a protest against government policy illegal, and so on. However, all of these moves seriously threaten our democracy. If you don’t think that the head of the WEF’s statement that he has penetrated more than half of the Canadian Cabinet is troubling, I worry for your naïveté. Also note that another bill is coming before the House for consideration with regard to basic income. What is its purpose, etc.? This clip raises many concerns, especially with regard to Freeland’s involvement with the WEF:

What’s afoot isn’t actually a conspiracy. The template for worldwide enslavement is openly shared and has much support. The move started with the pandemic but the levers are established. We have vaccine passports and a safety technocracy ready to shut down freedom based on data collection. The state has demonstrated that it will remove constitutional rights at will. Your constitutional rights are somewhat of an illusion. The struggle to retain and restore freedoms will likely be an ongoing battle, because states will reference all forms of “crisis” to justify oppression. Sadly, enough of the population is cowardly or simply too scared to push back. Getting back to “normal” is hard. Very few jurisdictions have the strength and courage to resist.

Yup, restrictions are replaced by forcing people into poverty. Screw that. Let’s unleash the power of the Canadian economy. Eliminate carbon taxes and pump that oil. Alberta in ascendancy. This can be when Canada finally takes off economically, but the global woke-green fascists must go.

I actually wanted Gore to win at the time. I just don’t believe in policies that crush people in the name of warding off a possible future threat that may or may not crush people. It’s like murdering people so they won’t get sick. We need to make life more affordable, not less. Cutting off the energy that sustains humans is anti-human.

“Safety” is often the excuse for oppression. The French Revolution’s Committee of Public Safety brought the Reign of Terror.

You’re wrong on the WEF and mainstream media. WEF ideas are driving government policy to a significant extent. Mainstream media portrayed the protesters negatively in keeping with government messaging. Why? Government funding.

Yes we’ve learned how quickly and easily government can suspend rights and shut down economic activity. The fearful embrace it because it’s done in the name of keeping people safe (from a virus, climate change, “white supremacy”, unscientific people, misogynists, whatever).

Yes it’s absolutely the resurgence of the Internationalist Politburo. A committee decides how much freedom and employment citizens deserve based on their beliefs, behaviour, and perceived levels of marginalization (reparations). It includes the suppression of all family and community institutions (church, holidays, etc.). Basically the past is thrown out as racist, patriarchal, colonial, capitalist, misogynist, etc. It’s replaced by state-defined pseudoscience like green/health anti-freedom restrictions to “reduce carbon footprints” and Marxist-nihilist race-based categorizations of people. Some races and ethnicities are more human and worthy of government support. It’s Woke Maoism supercharged by digital tracking and surveillance. It’s totalitarianism by any measure. Because it includes a lot of capitalist consumerism, it looks prettier that Soviet totalitarianism. Those who don’t comply, however, are totally disenfranchised and reduced to desperation.

The freezing of bank accounts and criminalization of political protest through the Emergencies Act was a major step towards Chinese style social credit where opposing government policy de-platforms people and removes citizens’ rights. Taking away protesters’ ability to work and access money that they earned is sinister and totally unconstitutional. The silence in mainstream media about what our government attempted is worrisome. Don’t forget that Trudeau wanted to continue the Emergencies Act. He only backed off and changed the narrative when it looked like the Senate wouldn’t pass it. Confidence in the security of our banking system has also been shaken. No one wants to entrust their savings to an organization that might terminate service based on retroactive government directives because of political views. The WEF would like to see human behaviour restricted to meet global goals. This is stated openly. The Canadian public didn’t give government a mandate for this level of control. Even if they did, it’s unconstitutional.

Don’t worry, many Canadians think like you, which is why our country is f’d up and Trudeau will continue to dictate your beliefs and behaviour. You love it.

One shouldn’t be pro or against homosexuality. It’s absurd. If you’re homosexual then you’re homosexual. If you’re heterosexual you’re heterosexual. Government shouldn’t advocate sexually. If our Constitution is respected then discrimination is prevented. This is another reason our government is lost.

It’s a one party system in Canada pretty much. Maybe half the Conservative Party is conservative, but Canadians are taught that actual conservatives are racist-fringe-Nazi by blackface Trudeau and friends. Media has conditioned the population to agree.

Constitutional rights aren’t respected by the Canadian government, so no.

Sexuality shouldn’t be a central focus for government. Provide the rights and move on. Somehow touting support for all forms of sexual orientation is the hallmark of responsibility? Sexual orientation should be neutral territory on the level of biological fact.

Raising the already high cost of living is no way to fight “climate change”. New ways of building, growing, and producing energy and food can reduce greenhouse gas emissions somewhat, but more people equals more emissions generally. Now, the population will decline as the Boomers die off. Urban, educated people have fewer kids. We are getting more urban and educated. Emissions will abate naturally, probably dramatically from the mid-21st century. Destroying people economically today through carbon taxes and reductions in secure oil and gas supply makes us more vulnerable to far greater oppression than the effects of climate change. Ask Ukraine and Germany. Ask single parents who make long commutes because they couldn’t afford homes near the city. Cost of living, employment, and citizens’ rights must be the top priorities of government, not implementing punishing international central planning schemes to control the behaviour of populations and remove rights. Trudeau and most of today’s Parliament consists of elitist ideologues who are out of touch with that challenges working people face every day, including the essential workers we used to call heroes.

I own a $33000 solar system that earns $1200 a year at a heavily subsidized rate. I drank the green energy Kool-Aid and still suffer the consequences. Don’t get me wrong, there are sensible inexpensive moves government can make, especially with building codes, but there’s a lot of smoke and mirrors around green energy. In its current form it barely moves the needle on energy supply. It’s almost a mystical cult.