Everything Justin Trudeau has done since the protests began has made a confrontation between protesters and police all but inevitable.
The only way to understand the actions of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over the past two weeks is that he wants the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa, which so far have been entirely peaceful, to descend into a violent confrontation between protesters and police.
Everything Trudeau has done, from his initial dismissive remarks about the protesters being a “small, fringe minority” with “unacceptable views,” to his ongoing refusal to meet with them, to the unprecedented invocation of the Emergencies Act this week, has served to escalate the situation in Ottawa and increase the likelihood that it ends in some kind of violence.
Consider the draconian measures Trudeau’s government is now pursuing. The protests, while certainly inconvenient and even onerous to the residents of Ottawa, are obviously not an existential threat to Canada. They are not even a national emergency according to the Emergencies Act’s own definition: an “urgent and critical situation” that “seriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians and is of such proportions or nature as to exceed the capacity or authority of a province to deal with it.”
No reasonable person thinks that’s what the protests in Ottawa are. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has said the federal government has not met the threshold necessary to invoke the Emergencies Act, and that invoking it “threatens our democracy and our civil liberties.” According to some recent polls, a not insignificant number of Canadians agree.
Yet Trudeau is bringing down the full force of the federal government to quash the Freedom Convoy. Under the Emergencies Act, protesters can have their bank accounts frozen, and so can people who simply donate to protesters. Crowdfunding platforms and payment service providers must cease all services to anyone they suspect might be participating in “illegal blockades,” and report it to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Truckers can have their commercial and private drivers’ licenses revoked, and can lose their insurance and their vehicles.
Even more ominously, Canadian government officials are now warning parents who bring their children to “illegal assemblies,” or even provide food or fuel to protesters, that they could not only face jail time and steep fines, they could lose custody of their children. On Wednesday, the Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa put out a statement urging parents at the demonstrations to make alternate care arrangements, “should they become unable to care for their children following potential police action.”
He takes Pointers from Pelosi & Biden !!!!!!
He thinks, like Pelosi , he can set the Truckers Up & put Fear in them & the public !!!!
Him and Biden are just alike. When in the hell are people going to wake up and realize what these two a$$holes are doing to their countries
hopefully all the truckers will go home and park and then see how the people are going to get their goods
Park on the D.C Beltway , all the way around it !!!!!! Would be nice on MAR 01 20222 !!!!!!
He better be careful here.
VERY careful.
No one knows what the trigger for the next revolution will be.
Shooting unarmed citizens, freezing/confiscating bank accounts, taking children from their parents (!!), taking professional licenses, and making social platforms refuse them service because someone may be “suspected ‘(!!) of aiding or helping these protesters are pretty egregious actions? That’s playing with fire.
BUT, in today’s world, where most politicians think they are not servants, but MASTERS, these things are entirely reasonable.
Sooner or later, they will learn the error of their ways.
Revolution.
It’s the ONLY way to stop these wanna-be Hitler’s. The only way.