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I still don’t think the fundamental issue of government overreach has been addressed. The vaccine mandates and penalties for the unvaccinated are big issues. The dismissal of the legitimate concerns of the protesters by Trudeau and his government are a huge issue. The imposition of the Emergencies Act, the criminalization of peaceful protesters, and the freezing of their bank accounts, all without due process, are huge issues. The fact that the events described in the last sentence took place after the blockades were removed and the late night honking stopped says how quickly and easily our government is willing to scrap our civil rights. I’ve learned that Canada isn’t as free as the government wants the country to be perceived. I’ve learned that we’re ruled by a narcissist who thinks that citizens who disagree with him numbering in the millions aren’t worthy of constitutional rights or respect as equals. The mandates persist. Trudeau still won’t even discuss their removal. He won’t reach out to the people who came by the thousands to fight for their rights. I don’t know how he can take himself seriously as a leader of a modern western democracy. He doesn’t represent Canadian values or the constitution. He acts like a dictator and has really hurt a lot of people. Freeland and many in the Cabinet are no better, a Cabinet that appears to be answerable to an international organization rather than the electorate.

But then what? Russians know the toll such sieges had in Russia during WW2. Then if they take the cities, and all Ukraine for that matter, they’ll be dealing with ambushes, hidden snipers, and an underground resistance. It won’t be safe for Russian troops. They’d have to oppress the citizens to hold the territory. Ultimately it’s wiser for Russia to say they’ll fall back to the majority Russian speaking eastern territories of Ukraine on the condition that any territory that wishes to separate from Ukraine can do so following a referendum. Russia could maintain forces in Ukraine until the votes take place. These are just my thoughts on how Russia could save face and feel that they’ve gained something. Otherwise they might as well retreat entirely. Trying to take and hold all of Ukraine is too much trouble with no clear benefit. The sanctions from NATO countries will hurt, as will the armaments coming into Ukraine from Germany and other NATO countries.

If they had something in their legislation that allows regions to vote for independence, to remain in Ukraine, or to join Russia, the Russian forces could make a deal and promise to the west that would allow the Donbass to decide its fate.

I wonder if Russia will retreat to and hold the two eastern regions that Putin wanted to recognize as independent.

Schwab has said we can’t go back to pre-pandemic life. Really Klaus? You can lock yourself in your basement and stop interfering with governments and citizens’ rights.

Yes but the public will tire of the Ukraine crisis because most people watch war on television like they’re watching Star Wars. Putin is already having to set terms for ending the attack in order to avoid Russia becoming a pariah state. People will continue to question why it’s possible for Putin to get away with this, in the same way they’re questioning how the government of a free country can apply vaccine mandates to truckers. Those questions remain even as people change the channel from Ukraine — and the convoy is heading to Washington. Protests are reappearing in Canada too.

An important precedent is set in an Ontario Superior Court that challenges the legality of vaccine mandates:

Actually conspiracies can and do sometimes exist. What’s very concerning is the way that anyone who questions the government’s narrative is dismissed as spreading disinformation. We saw this in the way that the MP who questioned the Cabinet’s “penetration” by the WEF was ignored in the House of Commons. Trudeau dismissed such concerns by talking about “tinfoil hat” people the same way he writes off the concerns of the opposition by saying they “walk with the swastika flag”. It’s a way to avoid having to explain or provide evidence. Finally an Ontario court judge has said that such concerns about government policy can’t simply be written off as “unacceptable views”. This court decision hopefully sets a new precedent with regard to government knows best health and other policies that take away personal discretion It’s an important assertion of individual Charter rights versus government vaccine mandates I hope it leads to the removal of federal vaccine mandates, because Trudeau seems adamant about keeping them, even if it alienates millions of Canadians and takes away people’s livelihoods. It’s his insistence on keeping them in the face of opposition and science that makes many people wonder if Trudeau knows something that we don’t and if he has some non-governmental body backing his nonsensical, unconstitutional, draconian policy.

There may be a bit of that. I certainly don’t think just Republicans have all the answers and there are reasonable people across parties. I don’t see a major right wing backlash nor an attempt to strip away rights. I actually think that the biggest concern now is protecting human freedom, which encompasses all constitutionally protected rights, and on that most fundamental issue, the Republicans are correct.

No Trudeau was and probably is still trying to hammer through this dystopian agenda that threatens our sovereign democracy because the WEF is an unelected international body that has penetrated more than half of our Cabinet. The slogan for the 2030 plan? “You will have nothing and be happy.” We have good reason to freak out when the government suspends the constitutional rights of citizens, outlaws peaceful protests, and seizes their bank accounts. It looks a lot like an attempt to outlaw opposition, a clear mark of fascism. Lametti himself said, “If you’re a Trump supporter you should be worried.” What? I’ll support whom I want. I wasn’t a Trump supporter but I’d take him over a fascist. At least he kept America out of war. The fact that Trudeau is clinging to digital passports despite the opposition to them and the science that debunks them, looks very suspect. I don’t want to live in a society where my rights depend on whether I follow my government’s ideology. F@ck social credit and Great Reset dystopia.

Yeah the NDP are really bad because they actually pretend to be for workers as they blatantly disregard workers’ wishes and needs. Fake empathy. They’re really self-interested elitists like the Liberals, and similarly sadistic.

No, many so-called Liberals or NDPers are lost trying to look ultra inclusive or equitable or some other woke notion, but no one is ever woke enough so you all accuse each other and stand accused of racism, colonialism, misogyny or something else retrograde. It’s pretty much universal hate. That’s why the traditional left wing parties are all putting each other and wider society on the gallows in cancel culture. It’s insane and I don’t have time for it. It’s not even liberal-democrat. It’s just fascist. The Republicans are the true progressives because they affirm equal opportunity for all without reference to race. No one stands accused of being inadequate based on superficial markers. It’s about character. Liberals and NDP just want to enslave everyone and accuse them of being counter-revolutionary. It’s gross.

Political interference in media eliminates free press. When I read that glowing article in The Globe and Mail about Freeland “Minister of Everything” and how one day she’ll probably be the editor of the newspaper, that’s when I knew our largest news media are compromised beyond redemption. The article came out after the Liberals imposed the Emergencies Act! It reads like 1930’s German political propaganda. I now press thumbs down on just about all such articles that Apple shares. I only read them so I’m aware of how corrupt these once respected news organizations have become. The Star is even worse. All the major print and television media in Canada are heavily reliant on government funding and heavily compromised by political interference. CBC might as well have its coverage handed to it by the PMO’s communications department. https://apple.news/A12JL44SEReCDfqhp7Ik82Q .

It really is the most beautiful memorial.

Let’s not forget to make sure Trudeau lifts vaccine mandates. Until I see those vaccine passports gone, I don’t trust that this government won’t have another go at implementing fascism, segregation, and persecution of citizens that he says have “unacceptable” views and for whom he doesn’t want to “make space”.

Russia and Canada have more in common than meets the eye.

Yup. Cheap energy should be a cause of the left. Green energy is heavily-subsidized, especially through tools like carbon taxes, and it produces a small amount of energy for the amount of up front investment, which takes decades to pay down. I do think some green tech and policies have a net benefit that reduces emissions without adding substantially to cost, but that cost-benefit analysis tends not to happen for political reasons. Once the green left parties take power, the game becomes throwing as much money at green power as possible without sensible analysis, as well as shutting down essential fossil fuel energy even when the supply is cheap and abundant. We even have twits who dismiss nuclear power outright. When a project doesn’t make financial sense, don’t embrace it. Never reduce your access to secure and affordable energy. Without it our population is a sitting duck for poverty and exploitation.

Imposing martial law illustrates a failure of leadership.

Well the government-backed police are actively whitewashing brutality and using the threat of bank account seizure and criminal charges to silence people who question the police’s narrative. This is how a country descends into totalitarianism. Here is the Indigenous disabled lady who was trampled:

Yup the channel was successfully changed, shading the serious damage to Canadian democracy. Who do you think won here, Canada or China and Russia?

Yup Canada is verging on failed state status. Don’t kid yourself that the Liberals and NDP have anything to do with progressive policies for working people. They’re elitist fakes who are seeking to expand their powers at the expense of working people and the rights of all Canadians. They’re literally trying to dismantle our constitutional rights, using the excuse of various emergencies to instil fear: death from Covid; fear of the unvaccinated and those who support their constitutional right to bodily autonomy, by labeling them all fringe racists; stoking fear of violent protest (which never happened) to implement martial law; and now fear of the impacts from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The result of all this is that Trudeau has alienated millions of Canadians; stripped the rights of all Canadians, especially the unvaccinated; and done lasting damage to Canada’s international reputation.

Joe and Justin are completely lost to identity politics and the internationalist green crusade. Tucker Carlson is right that government and NGO’s spend more time worrying about mandating arbitrary equity outcomes and cultural Marxist pseudoscience about race like CRT than they actually do the work for which they were hired. It’s infected big business too. It’s woke fascism meets green fascism. Anything related to building up the country is called colonial or racist. It’s literally bringing the West to the point of no return as China and Russia fill the void. John Kerry’s biggest concern about the invasion of Ukraine is its impact on greenhouse gas emissions. Lol. Our countries aren’t run by serious people. They are vacuous Manchurian Candidates. Conrad Black sums it up well: https://apple.news/AhRrFSE_PTHetyAiCay8psQ

She’s part of the club and downplays its significant impact on the direction of policy in Canada, which is a sovereign country, not a sub-jurisdiction of an unelected international authority. Great Reset is very much about government asserting much greater control over citizens and doing it on a global scale to fight crusades like the “climate crisis”, which is part of the reason free western democracy is at serious risk. It doesn’t help when Trudeau appears so adamant on keeping vaccine mandates and passports that he’s willing to ignore the concerns of millions of Canadians and bring in the Emergencies Act to crush protesters. Of course it’s going to raise questions about his plans for the use of digital vaccine passports, as we see digital social credit systems on cell phones used to manage behaviour in totalitarian China. I think Rempel is part of the problem because she refuses to acknowledge it and enjoys the swish WEF events. The protests have very much been about the working class versus the elites who are protected by wealth and privilege from the policies they impose on whole countries. Canadians’ elected MP’s should be worried about the clear and present dangers to our freedoms and standard of living. Our leaders are insulated from the challenges most Canadians face in their working and family lives. They shouldn’t be giving precious time in their high-paying jobs to global central planning initiatives directed at solving hypothetical future problems. Voters didn’t sign off on this and we have enough real problems at home. Damn right I’m concerned if Trudeau is a WEF darling and its leader Klaus Schwab says he has penetrated more than half of the Canadian Cabinet. China has major influence over the WEF and it’s hard not to connect Trudeau’s clear attempts at gaining more central authority over Canadians and the kind of totalitarian control we see in China. Indeed, Canada is more authoritarian now than I’ve ever experienced in my lifetime — by far.

What a contrast. This guy stands for freedom. Trudeau stands for fascism.

Let’s see if Joe shows more respect than Trudeau. I wonder if he’ll lift the mandates or maintain punitive unscientific mandates like Trudeau.