Canada

Is Canada Becoming North America’s Cuba?

In terms of all-encompassing government, suppression of dissent and the denial of fundamental human rights to many of its citizens, Canada is now more similar to Cuba than to any free country. Canada may eventually return to Western civilization, but as of this writing, the majority of Canadians appear to have no interest in it doing so. According to Maru Public Opinion, “two-thirds (66%) of Canadians support Prime Minister Justin Trudeau bringing in the Emergencies Act … A majority (56%) of Canadians do not support the truckers who are protesting in any way, shape, or form … This is a majority view held in every province/region across the country.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Cuba, Tyranny!

Conrad Black: The vassalization of Ukraine and the fall of western civilization

Having been overseas last week, it is my task to cover in this column both the postmortem on the truckers movement and events in Ukraine. As I wrote here two weeks ago, the truckers were right to be outraged at the escalated requirement for the 10 per cent or so who are unvaccinated to quarantine for two weeks when returning from the United States. That provision is oppressive and malicious. The truckers also acted for millions of other Canadians in rising up against the compulsive and imperishable authoritarianism of the substantially failed Canadian COVID regime and the smug acceptance of it by much of the media.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Canada

TERRAZZANO: Politicians, bureaucrats shielded from pain they cause

There are now 305,200 more government jobs across Canada than there were pre-pandemic

Politicians and government decision-makers are financially divorced from the Canadians they’re supposed to represent — and it shows.

… Federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland claims Canada has “more than recovered lost jobs” during the pandemic. But whose jobs have been recovered?

There are now 305,200 more government jobs across Canada than there were pre-pandemic, but 272,800 fewer jobs outside of government.

Then there’s the three-decades-high inflation.

This is why Ottawa was freaked out by the Truckers. Our predator class public servants came face to face with the peons they rob and it scared them.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's Government Owned News Media, Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class

Nearly 40 Trucking Businesses Involved in Canada’s Freedom Convoy Protests Have Been Shut Down

The Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) confirmed that it shut down nearly 40 businesses during its crackdown on Freedom Convoy protesters opposing COVID-19 mandates and restrictions.

In an email to Global News on Feb. 23, Dakota Brasier, a spokesperson for Minister of Transportation Caroline Mulroney, said the ministry had issued 12 seizure orders to Ontario-based large truck operators which suspended them from being allowed to operate within Canada.

The ministry also issued an order to seize all plates registered to them, Brasier said.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, WTF?

Christian Leuprecht: Canada enables Russia by opposing pipelines and protecting money launderers

My grandfather had a stern warning: Never trust the Russians. In that regard, Putin has long proven himself as reliable as he is predictable.

Having spent months painting himself into a corner, Putin left himself with no option but to run roughshod over the most basic principles of the post-Second World War international rules-based order: respect for territorial integrity and political sovereignty without recourse to violent inter-state coercion to redraw boundaries. The aim of these principles has been to avoid a repeat of the human, political, economic and military calamity of the new Thirty Years’ War, 1914-1945.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Here’s another reason to hate Ottawa … and the CBC

The trucks have left Ottawa, but ‘phantom honking’ lingers for many downtown

Kevin uses one word to describe the first days of the protests in downtown Ottawa: torture.

“Literally there was trucks right underneath me,” said Kevin, who did not want to provide CBC a last name for fear of reprisal. “It was one thing for me, but I’ve got animals. I’ve got three cats, two dogs. So yeah, it was torture.”

I am ashamed of my country. Via Twitchy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak F*cked Up", Canada, WTF?

GOLDSTEIN: Federal intelligence expert says Freedom Convoy donors no threat … Sophie off hook

A senior official with the federal government’s intelligence unit responsible for preventing the financing of terrorist and money-laundering activities says the typical person who donated money to the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa posed no security threat to Canada.

… This to the point where people are still being doxed and “exposed” in the media as donors to the Freedom Convoy, for doing nothing illegal, using stolen data that is so inaccurate it lists Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau as donors.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Poll: Nearly half of Canadians say their impressions of Trudeau have worsened over convoy protest response – remainder already hated his guts

Nearly half of Canadians say their impressions of Trudeau have worsened over convoy protest response: poll

The Nanos Research survey found that just 20 per cent of Canadians said their impressions of Mr. Trudeau improved over his government’s response to the demonstrations, while 31 per cent said it had no impact and 2 per cent said they were unsure.

The poll, commissioned by The Globe and Mail, also revealed a gender divide in the opinions of the Prime Minister, with 51 per cent of men saying their impressions of Mr. Trudeau worsened, compared to 42 per cent of women.

“What’s clear from the survey is that even though Canadians generally support what the Prime Minister has done, his personal brand has taken a hit as result of truckers’ convoy protest,” said pollster Nik Nanos in an interview. “There’s no political windfall for Justin Trudeau coming out of … implementing the Emergencies Act.”

Go incognito

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Allergic to the ‘So-Called Freedom Convoy’ in Canada

Something caught my ear in the car, listening to a radio simulcast of the February 21 PBS NewsHour. Anchor Judy Woodruff drily reported that “Canadian police have arrested more than 190 protesters and issued 389 charges in connection with the so-called Freedom Convoy.”

The “so-called Freedom Convoy.” It’s a journalistic term that can be employed as distancing themselves from something that’s not true. After 9/11, we heard about the “so-called War on Terror.” Democrats hated that term. Dan Rather used to get out the ten-foot pole and report on “the Republican political lobbying group that calls itself, quote, the ‘Christian Coalition.’” This could be described as “so-called journalism.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, USA

Why we’re still suing the Trudeau government over its use of the Emergencies Act

The federal cabinet has revoked the proclamation of a public order emergency, as Justin Trudeau announced on Wednesday. But the prime minister will still need to answer in court for his illegal and unconstitutional decision to invoke the Emergencies Act.

On Feb. 23, the Canadian Constitution Foundation filed an urgent application for judicial review of the government’s decision to invoke this extraordinary piece of legislation. This application will still proceed because it is imperative this legislation receive scrutiny the first time it is used, especially when the circumstances of its use are so questionable.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China eats weird animals disease", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Time to scrap entitlements for former G-Gs

Julie Payette must feel like she won the lottery.

Despite resigning in shame from her posting as governor general amidst allegations of creating a toxic workplace, she is still entitled to the Cadillac of all retirement packages, courtesy of all of us, taxpayers.

Our political class robs us blind because we let them. That’s why they were scared shitless when the Truckers descended on Ottawa.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Political Class