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I think it may be too late for Canada, which is hurtling towards China-style totalitarian capitalism/surveillance capitalism/digital capitalism. Actually it’s already arrived, but Trudeau is blind to what he has instituted, which is in fact unconstitutional policies backstopped by martial law. He’s tried to mollify it with euphemisms and conditions, but that is our reality in Canada today. Canada is a totalitarian country.

How dare you. I oppose vaccine mandates and digital vaccine passports. What the hell is illegal about that? What’s illegal about supporting a protest against vaccine mandates? You sound like the worst kind of cynical informant from the Soviet era.

In our current cancel culture, the social media heckler incites the mainstream media to pile on and destroy someone’s reputation before they’ve had a chance to explain or defend themselves. The frightening part of this is that a sound byte or phrase taken out of context becomes the justification to discredit and destroy someone. Don Cherry’s choice of words wasn’t wise, “you people”, but he never got the chance to explain who these people were whom he referenced. It was more about new generations thanking old than anything to do with ethnicity, but he’s an old man and rather than understand that he might not be able to nuance his words in the modern woke lexicon, or that he’s an older man who shows who he is more openly and honestly, warts and all, than his more polished younger colleagues, he fell victim to a CBC employee’s comment which then led to the public shaming and dismissal of Cherry. I don’t admire or respect that. Yes many employers don’t show loyalty or give the benefit of a doubt to their employees, but that doesn’t make them great employers. Were they lawful in their dismissal? Perhaps, though I’m not sure and they’re still terrible people

Whenever we have protests the Americans get involved. However, when it’s the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, or an international organization that’s ideologically aligned with Trudeau’s government, that’s just fine. Two different rules of law exist in Trudeau’s Canada, one for his supporters and another for the opposition, who are terrorists, racists, or some other “unacceptable” label. Once you make a group unacceptable through public vilification, that signals the state-run media to follow suit. The unacceptable don’t have the same rights as other Canadians. This is also what happens when we suspend Charter rights and create two tiers of citizens, as we have done with vaccine mandates and digital passports, which are grossly unconstitutional.

Not exactly. We have labour laws pertaining to wrongful dismissal to prevent any arbitrary egregious behaviour on the part of the employer. We have constitutional rights to prevent similar oppression of citizens. Supporting a protest against a government policy should never be grounds for freezing a citizen’s bank account, taking away their livelihood, and fining or imprisoning them, let alone publicly shaming them with slanderous remarks as our PM has done. This is an arbitrary unconstitutional measure imposed on top of an arbitrary unconstitutional measure (the vaccine mandate itself). What recourse does the protester or protest supporter have? No money, no job, possible imprisonment, and public humiliation. This is totalitarian, unconstitutional government by any measure.

Canadians beware: If you oppose vaccine mandates and express those views in a protest, the Government of Canada has announced that it can and will freeze your bank account, take away your license to operate your business, and can even imprison you. It is using legislation intended to be used with terrorists against the protesters. This from the CBC: “Citing terrorist financing laws, the government has forced crowdfunding websites and payment providers to register with the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), the government's financial intelligence unit. In a final warning to the assembled protesters, Freeland said those who have their big rigs on Ottawa's streets will see their insurance cancelled and their corporate accounts suspended — a move that could make it difficult for these drivers to ever work again. "The consequences are real and they will bite," she said. Deputy prime minister explains the financial repercussions of participating in blockades (2:17) Freeland said the government feels "great sorrow" about these actions but insisted they were necessary to "defend our democracy" and to "restore peace and order." Using powers granted under the Emergencies Act, the country's banks and other financial institutions have been ordered to stop doing business with people who are "directly or indirectly" associated with the anti-vaccine mandate protests”

Government is not asking nicely.

You’re in la la land.

Look at how the hackers of the online fundraising have caused a public shaming and persecution of small business owners. This is really awful, dangerous stuff. This is what happens when a government vilifies opposition and state-funded media piles on. https://apple.news/ANvlxjtEhRHmcyjDuMpLprg

No we won’t. He cares more about Canada than you do.

This is totally undemocratic suppression of the right to protest and to fund protests. The blockades at the border are gone, so what is Trudeau shutting down? Opposition and free speech.

You’re so out to lunch and don’t see what the rest of the world sees. Keep tuning into the CBC. Crush the vile terrorists in Ottawa. Get real. It takes no time to see all the clips online of peaceful protestors singing Oh Canada and talking about how we need to be cohesive as a country instead of alienating people as Trudeau does with the mandates. People of all races, religions, and ideologies are part of these protests. The common factor among protesters is protecting our Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

I’d rather be American right now, and you know how much I’ve defended Canada on here. Having said that, who are the best Canadians right now? I think we see many of them among the protesters because they know what’s at stake. They’re demanding that Canada’s government be truly inclusive and respect the constitution. They have to win the ideological battle or Canada is too compromised as a civilization.

If it wasn’t for American media and Republican support, Canada probably wouldn’t stand a chance of reconstituting its constitutional protections right now, because Britain granted us independence. Our Governor General doesn’t seem to take an interest in safeguarding our Charter. The Senate appears to be well in Trudeau’s pocket.

Give it up. Canada has a one-party system, the Liberal-NDP-CPC-Green Radical Left Communist-Totalitarian Party. Their platform is eliminating the middle class through “carbon” taxes; making the high cost of housing, food, and transportation higher; and forcing the population into rental studio apartment cubicles owned by the Liberal Party caucus. All opposition are racists. Don’t like it? Assisted suicide. Am I joking? Not so much.

Get real. Never in history has this been expected of people. It’s a government-mandated health program that violates healthcare discretion. It’s totalitarian crap unworthy of a healthy democracy. It makes Canada distinctly second rate and less free. Our PM openly discriminated against the unvaccinated. Move to China where you can enjoy even more mandates and restrictions. I’m triple vaccinated and believe in vaccines. I don’t believe in forcing them on people and stripping those who don’t comply of their livelihoods and basic freedoms.

That’s a lie. If you’re unvaccinated you don’t enjoy certain citizens’ rights. Just having to present a vaccine passport to enjoy citizens’ rights is a violation of them.

Why should any protesters go home until the mandates are lifted? They’re fighting for our constitutional rights!

I should start calling everyone who disagrees with me racist. I guess I should get into black face before I do it. Works for Trudeau.

Holding out for hope that most Canadians figure it out. Really uncertain.

The state in Canada has run too far ahead of the people. Unshackled Leviathan. The Red Queen is no longer in the same location. It’s an imbalance of power.

Yeah BC is into fascism big time. They’re left of Trudeau. I was surprised Quebec promised to remove the Soviet digital passports. Quebec always makes radical moves. Now that Ontario is removing them, Trudeau is fundamentally undermined. Thank God!

I’ve seen this tendency before in Canada and the US, but nothing like this. There’s an official view of what’s unfolding that’s acceptable in media and officialdom. Our barely conservative Conservatives are labeled extremists just for expressing sympathy for the thousands of supporters of the freedom convoy’s effort to end the unconstitutional mandates that divide our society and persecute a segment of the population. It’s Canada’s darkest hour in modern history. However, the truckers have started an unstoppable international movement that no war measures or any other hard line can diminish. Basic psychology teaches that when you prohibit a natural tendency like the desire for freedom, it will only grow more powerful.

And so, maybe the majority of Canadians don’t respect minority rights and health discretion. Maybe they embrace totalitarianism, the indefinite suspension of constitutional rights. Maybe the majority of Canadians don’t respect the essential workers who delivered their goods throughout the pandemic. Maybe you do represent most Canadians, Aristides. In that case, look out, because the smart freedom-loving people will leave and you’ll be left in a country of snitches, sucks, and fascists. You’ll only have yourself and your like-minded compatriots to blame. If that’s truly a representative poll, it’s definitely time to think about getting out of here.