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How much of this can be ignored or explained away? The truth will out. The truth will set you free.

Exactly. What other choices are going to be taken from us? So much has been taken in the name of a public health emergency. Now that that excuse is gone, Trudeau is refusing to restore Charter rights. He is using the Emergency Act to maintain these unconstitutional policies. It’s crystal clear. He won’t even discuss a timeline for removing pandemic measures. This is arbitrary government overreach. This is totalitarianism by any metric. He ignored the concerns of protesters and now seeks to crush them. NDP is in support. We won’t forget this.

How do you know? There are businesses that support the protesters just as there are Ottawas who support them. You only believe one side exists. Denial of the opposition. No longer a pluralistic society.

The opposition is being silenced. Incredibly, it’s supposedly mainstream centre-left parties doing this. What a sad state Canada is in.

Not all Ottawa residents are in agreement with you. Horns are annoying after a while and there’s an injunction against them. Sloly may be the true hero in this because he refused to use violence against the protesters.

Trudeau’s Canada is not inclusive. It’s not constitutional. People who don’t accept government mandated healthcare lose rights and are publicly ridiculed by government in Canada People who protest these measures are discredited and refused the Charter right of assembly and protest. The border blockades are gone Those are the facts The only violence at the protests has come from police against protesters, including mounted police trampling a disabled woman. These are facts

I’m all about peace, love, and civil rights for all. I always will be.

You’re a scary person.

Look man, peaceful protesters including older women and children singing Give Peace a Chance surrounded by a massive police force with batons isn’t a good look. You’re not going to win this argument.

What does that mean, “a far right ppc supporter”? He’s not trampling peaceful protesters. That’s the government you support.

The problem with what’s unfolding is that unconstitutional laws imposed by a tyrannical government supported by a combined multi-force police apparatus, empowered by emergency powers, make opposition futile. The opposition is essentially illegal. Dissent is effectively criminalized. Yes we’ve seen this before but never on this scale in Canada. The Métis weren’t fighting digital vaccine passports in the Riel Rebellion. William Lyon Mackenzie didn’t have a police state to contend with during the Upper Canada Rebellion. This is very much a battle for freedom itself, an ideological battle, even a spiritual battle. Canada is the scene of the first international battleground of the cultural civil war. It’s basically the Republican Party versus digital totalitarianism/totalitarian capitalism/surveillance capitalism. Canada is a lot closer to America than Hong Kong, however. The Americans should be worried because constitutional democracy is literally being high jacked on their doorstep. Trudeau is Biden ideologically. The US Supreme Court has mitigated vaccine mandates in the US somewhat, but the US has them. The Biden administration has imposed them on the truckers in keeping with Trudeau, who led on this. Trudeau is leading this new left-wing totalitarianism. Biden better figure it out. I know some on the US left are figuring it out. Beri Weiss, Bill Maher, etc.

I just can’t believe that parties that used to be associated with workers (NDP) and lessez faire (Liberals) want to crush people for demanding their constitutional rights. This isn’t Kansas anymore for sure. The general public are largely asleep and comforted by the assurances of state-funded legacy media. Get the “extremists” with their “unacceptable” views!

Yes it’s the dictatorship of the elites.

To see so many police with so much force surrounding peaceful protesters speaks for itself. This is a police state.

Well I think the world is watching how all of this goes over the next few days, including Monday’s vote. If the government gets continued support for oppressive policies and more scenes like last night’s ensue, then either the Governor General must dissolve Parliament or Canadians will literally need to be liberated from dictatorship. I don’t know if Biden’s America would do it. All of this is making the US Democrats look complicit in oppression.

There’s nothing proportionate about mounted police trampling a disabled woman. That will always be an image of evil.

A more benign-looking King Joffrey

Yes this is about hubris. We saw it with Bolsheviks, French Revolution Reign of Terror. It’s the McCarthyist forces of Puritanical cancel culture. Salem Witch Trials. Spanish Inquisition. Left wing dictatorship in this iteration.

None of this had to happen. A result of government overreach. I hope that this government’s foray into dictatorship ends as soon as possible. If the NDP support this power grab in Parliament on Monday night, then they are supporting oppressive forces in Canada. I don’t even know who the Liberals are anymore. This is not the party of Chrétien.

Funny that you keep coming back to that guy. He was not the key organizer. I don’t think the core people and the vast majority of protesters have any extreme ideas. This was always about Charter rights and opposing vaccine mandates, a critical concern in our constitutional democracy.

No one was going to take over the country. This was always about vaccine mandates and the massive Charter violations during the pandemic, amplified now.

My Lord what a horrible situation. The police are oppressing peaceful protesters in Canada. God help us.

Just got over Covid. Asymptomatic. Time to move on from pandemic fear and the total realignment of the economy to fight Covid. The pandemic is over. Sorry you’re cancelled.

I’m only interested in the freest country possible. Can Canada rediscover its strength? We’re all recovering. The Great Awakening.

Yes but the next great battle is a constitutional one. Is Canada worth saving? Should provinces secede? Hell we could have 20 city states in Canada. Infrastructure laid out in the 19th century. Canada is one of the last battlegrounds. Still so undeveloped.