OTTAWA — The federal government is prepared to invoke the Emergencies Act to see the trucker convoy protests and blockades end, says Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair, calling it a “critical situation,” while also saying that police need to “do their job.”
“We have an emergency act that I will tell you, there has been a near-constant and vigorous examination of those authorities and what’s required,” Blair said in an interview on CTV’s Question Period.
The federal government warned Saturday that consequences for trucker convoy protesters who break the law will be “increasingly severe” as an occupation in Ottawa extends past two weeks and blockades spring up across the country.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau convened a meeting Saturday with ministers and senior officials to see how protests, occupations and blockades can be brought “under control.”
MUST WATCH: A veteran in Ottawa UNLOADS on CBC, “Get out of here!” pic.twitter.com/H0BmbMz5rd
— Angelo Isidorou (@angeloisidorou) February 12, 2022
h/t RM
SURREY, B.C. – Several commercial trucks and a military-style vehicle broke through an RCMP barricade on the Pacific Highway as they followed protesters marching to the border crossing at approximately 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon.
Several officers were cut off from their colleagues by what Mounties described as a hostile mob. Hundreds of protesters celebrated on foot near the border crossing, with traffic at a standstill through a massive area of south Surrey.
Ont. reporting 1,540 COVID-19 patients in hospital, including 402 in ICU
The number of patients in hospital with COVID-19 has fallen to its lowest level in more than a month, according to the latest data released by provincial health officials.
There are now a just over 1,500 patients with COVID-19 receiving treatment in hospital, down from 2,230 one week ago. This number includes 402 patients in the ICU, about 80 fewer ICU patients than there were seven days ago. The province does not release detailed hospitalization data over the weekend and cautions that data is incomplete due to a lack of reporting from some hospitals.
1,540 people are hospitalized with #COVID19. Please note that not all hospitals report on weekends.
There are 402 people in ICU with COVID-19.
There are 2,265 new cases of COVID-19.
Today’s numbers will be available at 10:30 a.m. at https://t.co/ypmgZbVRvn.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) February 13, 2022
Dismissed ‘Deltacron’ variant could be real
Health authorities in the UK have officially begun monitoring the so-called ‘Deltacron’ variant of the Covid-19 coronavirus that is thought to be a hybrid of the Omicron and Delta strains. The move comes after experts at the World Health Organization and elsewhere had dismissed the variant as a lab error last month.
Officers from multiple police forces began advancing toward protesters on Sunday morning to break up a days-long occupation near the Ambassador Bridge border crossing in Windsor, Ont.
A group of protesters opposing pandemic-era laws such as vaccine mandates has been at the bridge since Monday, blocking what is typically Canada’s busiest border crossing. On Friday, a judge granted an injunction demanding that the protesters clear the bridge by that evening.
Police have cleared the entire Windsor protest zone and are pushing back anyone remaining who may be blocking the road leading to the Ambassador Bridge pic.twitter.com/MKx3o9C4gt
— Thomas Daigle (@thomasdaigle) February 13, 2022
The last of the trucks has left pic.twitter.com/aaz5lx8I5a
— Ellen Mauro (@EMauroCBC) February 13, 2022
We saw the second trucker get arrested. Different tone today. pic.twitter.com/4J57xPiEEC
— á ’ Global News (@ConsumerSOS) February 13, 2022
Twitter – #AmbassadorBridge
A police raid on the bridge blockade at Windsor, Ontario, failed to shut it down. With protesters in Ottawa also digging in, what will it take to get them to budge?
They arrived by the bus load – police in balaclavas and carrying long guns, ready to oust dozens of protesters blocking roads leading to the Ambassador Bridge.
There were pickups and SUVs festooned with Canadian flags, anti-vaccination slogans and anti-Trudeau epithets, as well as some heavy commercial trucks.
About 100 vehicles have been parked along the roughly 2km (1.25 miles) of road leading up to the bridge for almost a week.
Darkness descends on a region’s stability.
While we try to figure out Russia’s intentions for Ukraine, Iran is getting closer to a deal that will leave it a nuclear power. Discussions in Vienna are back on, and hopeful dispatches are sent out by Western diplomats. But given Iran’s maximalist demands, and the Biden administration’s fetish of “diplomatic engagement,” things aren’t looking good for the region’s stability.
Ilhan Omar’s notorious “Islamophobia” bill doesn’t ever get around to defining what “Islamophobia” actually is, and there is a reason for that: the word is used not just to refer to vigilante attacks against innocent Muslims, which are never justified, but to any and all criticism of Islam, including honest discussion of the motives and goals of jihad terrorists. The insidious aspect of her bill is that it could be used to shut down such discussion and leave us unable to speak publicly about a real threat. An indication of how this can happen has just come from last month’s Sundance Film Festival, which featured a documentary about jihadis getting rehabilitated and has had two staffers resign so far over its unpardonable “Islamophobia.”
On day 6 of the Ambassador Bridge blockade, protester holds up “I’m not leaving” sign #Windsor #AmbassadorBridge pic.twitter.com/RfXcxIDLFP
— Lisa Bennatan (@LisaBennatan) February 13, 2022
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, along with the rest of the liberal media, have denigrated the truckers of the Freedom Convoy. It’s not a band of white supremacists. There is no violence. These are all lies. There’s no looting. There’s no arson. There’s no security issue present that would warrant the government rolling in the tanks. Luckily, the Canadian military has rejected any overtures that they be used to clear these people out. Ontario’s government tried to block the donation stream. It failed. GoFundMe pinched off donations to the truckers; GoSendMe picked up where they left off.
Tucker Carlson (see below) had a somewhat ebullient segment about the fact that the Canadian truckers represent the rise of the ordinary people, while the response from Canada’s leadership class bespeaks fear and helplessness. I’m sorry to say I believe that Tucker is wrong and that things are getting very dangerous for the truckers. They still have options, but, whenever you have to depend on the goodwill of a tyrant, his police state, and his military, things aren’t going well. That’s especially true of Canada because, on May 1, 2020, Canadians gave up their guns.
Canadian Islamic Scholar Bilal Philips: During Operation Desert Storm, We Persuaded 3,000 U.S. Troops In Saudi Arabia To Convert To Islam; We Took Them To Watch Beheadings; Some Would Later Use Their Expertise In The Bosnian War
“This is definitely not a one-time thing,” activist Sam Hersh predicts.
When the trucks finally leave downtown Ottawa, when quiet returns and traffic resumes, hard questions will have to begin to be answered.
Chief among those is: Will it happen again?
Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly has already raised the possibility that truckers could return to the city this spring — or sooner — and has cited that concern to explain, in part, why his officers have yet to force the trucks from downtown streets.
“Real Time” host Bill Maher explained during the latest broadcast of his show that the Canadian truckers protesting vaccine mandates are justifiably upset at the elites because they had to continue to work throughout the pandemic while many others had the flexibility to sit at home at the expense of the government.
In starting the panel discussion of his Friday night show, Maher said that the Freedom Convoy is people “understanding this is about something more than just the vaccine mandate.”
World-famous liberal commentator Bill Maher calls out Trudeau’s bigoted remarks about unvaccinated people.
➡️https://t.co/HkDUvD7orG pic.twitter.com/BASA4Toc2j— pierrepoilievre (@PierrePoilievre) February 12, 2022
