For nearly two weeks anti-vaccine mandate demonstrators and their big rigs have entrenched themselves in Ottawa’s parliamentary district and its neighbourhoods.
Despite a strategic strike by police to cut off supplies to truckers encamped in the city’s downtown core, protesters appear to still have the upper hand on police.
It’s a success that experts partly attribute to the deep knowledge of law enforcement and military tactics that exist in the convoy’s organizational structure.
So Trudeau comes out and condemns the massive freedom protests, saying that “individuals are trying to blockade our economy, our democracy, and our fellow citizens’ daily lives. It has to stop.”
Oh, honey. Bless your little authoritarian heart. You can’t be serious. You can’t be this dense.
HE is the one who has been blockading their economy, their democracy, and their fellow citizens’ daily lives for TWO YEARS. HE is the one who has to be made to stop. Thus the freedom protests. To make him stop blockading their economy, their democracy, and their fellow citizens’ daily lives.
Since the freedom convoy has rolled into Ottawa, the Conservatives have ousted their leader, Saskatchewan has announced an end to all Covid restrictions, Alberta has ditched its vaccine passport, and Quebec has abandoned its tax on the unvaccinated and started to phase out its restrictions. Whenever any of the politicians behind these moves have been asked, they’ve said the convoy has nothing to do with it, but that honking you hear in the distance begs to differ.
Canada’s truckers have paralyzed Ottawa and unsettled the country’s politics over vaccine and mask mandates. Now Americans want in on the action.
A nationwide convoy — starting in California before heading toward Washington, D.C. — is expected to get underway on March 4 amid a growing clamor from those who believe their freedoms are under threat from government Covid-19 restrictions.
The key lesson of Ottawa’s siege might be that it’s difficult to get populist, anti-democratic anger to leave once you’ve invited it in and allowed it to get comfortable.
It may have been inevitable (or at least foreseeable) that some kind of tumult would result from the imposition of vaccine mandates. In 1885, compulsory vaccination in Montreal to deal with a smallpox outbreak caused a riot. In 1919, loud public opposition scuttled an attempt to implement compulsory vaccination against smallpox in Toronto.
The 3 Big Takeaways from the trucker protest?
1) The Media are brazen liars
2) Our political class are cowards
3) The Media are brazen liars
Schwab has publicly bragged that he has “penetrated” cabinets around the world to force his economic philosophies upon the people circumventing any right of the people to vote. This was at his talk at Harvard.
Good grief, when the leftist government in Canada gets pushback, they really don’t know how to handle it. Earlier today, the Canadian government expressed extreme anger toward any American citizen who may have made a financial contribution to the Freedom Protest.
The trucker convoy protest against COVID-19 measures that has brought Canada’s national capital to a standstill for the past 11 days is garnering growing interest across the border in the United States.
… Bruce Heyman, a former U.S. ambassador to Canada under Barack Obama, said it was “wholly inappropriate” for U.S. senators, governors and states’ attorneys general to suggest support of the trucker movement and interfere with Canada’s domestic affairs.
“It’s so incredibly scary and disappointing,” he told Global News in an interview from Chicago.
New Zealand protesters block streets outside parliament
WELLINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) – Hundreds of people protesting vaccine mandates and pandemic restrictions blocked streets outside New Zealand’s parliament on Tuesday with trucks and campervans, inspired by similar demonstrations in Canada.
The “convoy for freedom” protesters arrived from all corners of New Zealand and gathered outside the parliament building in the capital Wellington, called the Beehive, ahead of the first speech for the year by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
Belgium convoy for freedom getting underway as the Canadian method spreads worldwide.#FreedomConvoy2022 pic.twitter.com/61Kx9d0E1E
— WorldWideNews24 (XII) (@News24Wide) February 8, 2022
People want their freedom first and foremost, to work in peace and without the state meddling in their lives or telling them how to raise their children or take care of their health.
The Freedom Convoy rolled in to Toronto on Saturday, and after attending the protest as an observer, I can say with confidence that the narrative that it represents some kind of victory for white supremacy isn’t true. The Toronto protesters have been misrepresented and unfairly vilified.
Our mission is to document and shame every business that is identified as being involved in the 2022 Truckers Convoy occupation of Ottawa. This includes truckers, supporting businesses, hotels, and restaurants. By naming and tagging we hope to ensure that any future internet searches reveals the true nature of these businesses.
This is how it’s done. https://t.co/LDpbHKGuDn
— john jackson (@pvtjokerus) February 7, 2022
People are currently protesting in Ottawa by carrying around empty jerry cans. Mainstream media is in SHOCK, and as usual, has no idea what is actually going on. https://t.co/jdaFowC4bK
— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) February 7, 2022
The federal government is proposing a special meeting with provincial and municipal governments to plan how to respond to the trucker convoy protests, now into their second week in the nation’s capital.
Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair announced Monday that the federal government wants to strike a “trilateral table with municipal and provincial partners,” that he says would allow the various parties responsible for managing the standoff to keep lines of communication open and respond efficiently.
The federal NDP is advocating for the government to ban the display of three different hate symbols, which leader Jagmeet Singh says are being used to mobilize movements.
Bill C-229, tabled by NDP MP Peter Julian last week, would prohibit the “display or sale” of symbols or emblems such as the Nazi swastika, the Ku Klux Klan’s insignia, and the Confederate flag.
