A special joint parliamentary committee has voted to block the release of uncensored documents that detail the federal government’s rationale for invoking the Emergencies Act against the Freedom Convoy.
Sponsored by Bloc Québécois MP Rhéal Fortin, the motion that federal agencies “be required to provide the committee with unredacted versions of those documents” was defeated in a 6–5 vote, with Liberal MPs and Liberal-appointed senators voting against it on the night of Oct. 20.
OTTAWA – Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino stands by his assertion that the “Freedom Convoy” had extremist elements.
A member of the Ontario Provincial Police appeared to question the claim in a document tabled at the Public Order Emergency Commission, the inquiry examining the circumstances surrounding the use of the Emergencies Act.
“I do not know where the political figures are acquiring info or intel on the extent of extremist involvement,” OPP Supt. Pat Morris wrote in an email.
It is an axiom of Canadian politics that a thing is not known until the Liberals know it. Free trade was terra nullius before the Liberals discovered it, a creature of Tory myth that Brian Mulroney somehow convinced the public to support in 1988. As late as 1993 the Liberals were still campaigning against it.
But then they won power, after which it was suddenly transformed into conventional wisdom – one of those things everybody knows, and what is more has always known. By a similarly mysterious process the GST, balanced budgets and price stability, ideas once so barbaric no civilized person could repeat them, became familiar parts of the Liberal lexicon.
Conservatives say cabinet minister Bill Blair and RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki “lied” about not having politically interfered in the RCMP’s investigation into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shootings, adding that they should resign.
On Oct. 20, the Mass Casualty Commission made public a recorded phone call from April 28, 2020, during which Lucki says she was “very frustrated” after her staff failed to include information about the guns used in the shootings in a news release and in press conference speaking notes.
The Public Order Inquiry Commission began public hearings October 14, exactly eight months after the declaration of a state of emergency by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government. Let’s recall that the Trudeau government claimed that the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa were so dangerous that they imperilled public safety and this necessitated the use of draconian and emergency powers, that have only once been previously invoked in peacetime. The hearings give us an opportunity to test Trudeau’s claim, and so far the government’s rationale has all but fallen flat on its face. Of course, there could be remarkable revelations in the future which put a different cast on the events, but so far, a range of witnesses give reason to be highly skeptical of the government’s rationale and the narrative that fuelled it.
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— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) October 21, 2022
“… But so far it’s all about governments and police failing spectacularly right down the line. None of what we’ve heard supports the Trudeau government’s argument that the convoy protest, as disruptive and offensive as it was, presented the kind of threat to national security that would justify bringing down the hammer of the Emergencies Act.”
“Europeans are absolutely committed to speeding up the green transition,” said Freeland.
“I think we can all understand why the rest of the world is looking at Europe and is saying, ‘let’s move as fast as we can to end our dependence on the petro tyrants.’”
Yea she was so scared she revealed the real agenda.
There are riots in the streets of France over the cost of fuel and heating, same as in Germany and those Dutch farmers aren’t protesting for more lunatic environmental restrictions.
Both sides have their tyrants and for us it’s Freeland and her ilk who abuse the goodwill of their fellow citizens towards Ukraine to advance a freedom robbing economically ruinous green-scam agenda.
Commissioner Brenda Lucki says request to release gun info came from office of public safety minister
The RCMP has finally released a recording of a controversial phone meeting in which the head of the RCMP dresses down staff in Nova Scotia for communications following the mass killings in the province.
The meeting, held days after the mass shootings, has been at the centre of accusations that the Prime Minister’s Office and then public safety minister Bill Blair interfered politically with RCMP operations in order to benefit the Liberal government’s pending gun legislation.
Lucki and Blair are guilty as charged, gotta love how the CBC plays that down.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pitches Canada as a global climate leader, one that’s adopted increasingly bold climate targets and policies under his watch. But Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions tell an entirely different story.
In the seven years since Trudeau took office, emissions have plateaued while Canada’s economy has grown eight per cent. A cleaner electric grid coexists with even more extraction and burning of oil. But all of Canada’s peers in the Group of Seven, or G7, have managed to achieve economic growth while simultaneously cutting emissions, and Canada’s environmental commissioner says the country is struggling to bend the emissions curve. Among the Group of 20 major economies, or G20, Canada ranks behind only Saudi Arabia when it comes to per capita emissions, and ahead of Australia.
A Canadian tech CEO says he has no idea why his company is listed as having received a $1.2-million ArriveCan contract and is calling on the Canada Border Services Agency to issue a correction.
In an interview, ThinkOn CEO Craig McLellan said he was surprised to read in The Globe and Mail that his company was listed as the sixth-ranked company in terms of federal outsourcing contracts related to developing and maintaining the ArriveCan app.
“We have received no money from the CBSA,” said Mr. McLellan.
h/t SDMATT
Don’t worry, it will keep getting worse. The cost of gas will continue to rise — and with it, the price of just about everything else. Once this pandemic-induced inflationary period has passed, the Liberals’ enthusiasm for forcing Canadians to lower their standard of living will only grow.
Of course, they won’t phrase it that way. They will call it a “transition,” or “putting a price on pollution,” or Canadians “doing their part to fight climate change.” The government might even believe some of it.
It is criminal what the Trudeau government has done to Canada.
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a phone call that the Freedom Convoy protesters were “nasty people” that don’t represent the country, saying they remind him of the Republican Party, documents presented at the inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act show. His comments were shown at the inquiry on Oct. 18, where he later denied to the convoy protesters’ lawyer that he had politicized the protests.
“A challenge for everyone. Still a pretty unstable situation. Nasty people out there that just don’t represent Canada,” Watson told Trudeau on Feb. 8, according to a transcript presented at the public inquiry into the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.
Our political class lives in a bubble without contact to Canadians.
There were a couple of things that were quite striking about Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland’s clarion call at a Brookings Institution forum last week where she called for a radical dismantling of the global trade paradigm that Russia and China have lately proved so successful in subverting by coercion, blackmail and war.
Justin loves the taste of Dicktators.
“So when I read accounts that the state of Russia had something to do with it, or that this was a result of American influence, either financially or ideologically, or that Donald Trump was behind it, or that it was un-Canadian, or that the people participating were un-Canadian and that they were not Canadian views and they were extremists, I found it to be problematic.”
Wow an honest public servant. Compare and contrast with Justin, the CBC and the rest of those frauds.
