OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to revoke use of the Emergencies Act, according to two senior government sources, now that the protest in downtown Ottawa is over.
Trudeau is expected to make the announcement in Ottawa at 4 p.m. eastern time.
The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
Protesters may no longer be set up in downtown Ottawa but some have relocated elsewhere in the region, with private property owners offering up sites for people to regroup.
Trucks, trailers and Canadian flags have been spotted on sites in Ottawa’s vicinity in recent days following the removal of protesters from the city’s downtown.
The protesters, some of whom called for an end to COVID-19 mandates, first rolled into Ottawa nearly four weeks ago.
The discussions held by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Premiers leading up to the imposition of The Emergencies Act will not be made public, but the results are obvious: All Premiers except one, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, told Trudeau not to do it.
I’m sure that they all urged the Prime Minister to take the glaringly obvious, commonsense step of engaging in dialogue with the truckers. I would guess that the Premiers told Ford to do the same as well. Ford did not budge. He chose to save his own political skin over doing the right thing for the country. Ditto for Trudeau.
Look West: Criminal anthropologist says Alberta at heart of unrest, protests
CALGARY — A criminal anthropologist suggests looking to the West to find the heart of protests and blockades that gripped the nation for more than a month.
Alberta appears to have been the epicentre of unrest that started with truckers over cross-border vaccine mandates, but quickly attracted other groups with their own agendas. Most prominent were demands to lift all pandemic public health measures, complaints about the federal Liberal government and rallying cries for freedom.
Two people arrested for leading the noisy three-week standoff in downtown Ottawa call Alberta home. A third is from Saskatchewan.
Washington, DC, issued an alert Tuesday as officials brace for an expected caravan of trucks arriving in the nation’s capital to emulate the anti-mandate trucker protests in Canada.
“Mayor [Muriel] Bowser is being briefed by public safety officials as we continue to monitor the situation closely, and our agencies remain in regular contact with their local, regional and federal partners,” the alert said, according to a screenshot posted by Fox DC reporter Lindsay Watts.
On Tuesday, February 15, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act of 1988 to try to end the continuing demonstrations by truckers in that country. The demonstrators called themselves a “freedom convoy”. Opponents have claimed that the convoy has been supported monetarily and logistically by certain right wing factions, including those based in the United States.
The truckers came thousands of miles from across Canada to descend on the capital of Ottawa, where they refused to leave until Trudeau’s vaccine mandate for truckers entering from the United States is repealed. However, Trudeau refused to meet with the truckers, who later expanded their protest by blocking certain international crossings and other infrastructure. The Prime Minister then vilified them and in effect declared martial law.
A trucker who was seen on viral video being beaten by Ottawa police during the “Freedom Convoy” demonstrations said the officers “broke my body a little bit” but not his spirit.
Romanian-born Csaba Vizi, a 20-year resident of Canada, said on Fox News on Monday that he expected to be arrested, but not attacked by cops, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act.
Tucker Carlson Interviewing Canadian Trucker Csaba Vizi Who Was Beaten By Police In Ottawa
Tucker: "You seem to be having trouble breathing, I can hear it through my earpiece. Were you injured by this?"
Csaba: "Yes, they break my body a little bit, but not my spirit." pic.twitter.com/8eBgXWVTS2
— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) February 22, 2022
Ont.’s COVID-19 hospitalizations rise above 1,100 today as ICU admissions level off
319 people are in ICU with #COVID19. 77.5% of patients admitted to the ICU were admitted for COVID-19 and 22.5% were admitted for other reasons but have tested positive for COVID-19.
There are 1,425 new cases of COVID-19.
— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) February 23, 2022
March 1st 2022 will be the last edition of the daily Wuhan Flu update.
That is the day proof of vaxx will no longer be mandatory in Ontario.
I am disturbed it lasted this long. I prematurely retired the post a year ago August and was forced back.
We all hope that a new variant doesn’t gum up the works, Omicron 2.0 is more contagious but so far only as lethal as 1.0.
I complied with all the “recommended” measures to protect Kathy and Mom while they were still with us. It was the dutiful thing to do.
Still Mom passed away March 5th of last year after contracting Delta Corona while in hospital.
It’s been a hell of a ride.
The Trudeau government has exposed thousands of Canadians to prospective financial ruin and gross violations of privacy.
Canadians often gripe that the rest of the world pays little attention to our country. These days, most of us are wishing that we were making international news a lot less.
Our newfound global notoriety is a result of the Freedom Convoy, a protest movement that sprang up in late January, when fleets of trucks converged on the nation’s capital, Ottawa, to call for the end to vaccine mandates. There they remained, dug into the city’s core, for over three weeks before police began to remove them.
The border crossings in Canada may have been cleared under Justin Trudeau’s new “emergency mandate” tyranny, but not so in New Zealand. The Freedom Convoy established in Wellington by some Kiwis who oppose the government’s COVID mandates has dug in on the lawns outside of the Parliament building and the police response has grown more confrontational.
The Ottawa Police Department (OPD) recently received many phone calls protesting its abhorrent abuse of peaceful protesters surrounding the Freedom Convoy. The department apparently did not like the calls. Ergo, it took to Twitter to tweet: “We know the events in #Ottawa are upsetting. Still, we’re asking people to stop calling critical emergency and operational phone lines to express displeasure about the police action to remove an unlawful assembly downtown.” A subsequent tweet stated: “We track calls and will charge anyone deliberately interfering with the phone lines.”
A Toronto Liberal MP appears to believe that horn honking during the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa is a call for Adolf Hitler.
Liberal MP: “Honk honk” is an “acronym for Heil Hitler,” and they’re actively pursuing something that ISN’T currently an emergency while claiming all citizens showing support are basically terrorists or nazi sympathizers. You wonder why 🇨🇦 is divided!? #TrudeauFailedCanada pic.twitter.com/tb4pOFfvqb
— Castaway_RN (@Tinfoil_Travis) February 22, 2022
It was on the weekend, after some of the most entrenched parts of the truckers’ freedom convoy were already removed from downtown Ottawa, that interim Ottawa police chief Steve Bell said: “If you are involved in this protest, we will actively look to identify you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal charges … Absolutely.”
… Tamara isn’t accused of violence – only mischief (police-speak for peaceful civil disobedience).
Let’s compare this to how the Canadian justice system dealt with would be Winnipeg Car Assassin David Zegarac.
The fact that the biomedical security state is being imposed by elected leaders doesn’t automatically give it democratic legitimacy.
Behind all the bad arguments against the Canadian Freedom Convoy, that they are Nazis or transphobes or whatever, is one good one: there was an election five months ago and they lost it. We can’t replace democracy with rule by whoever has the biggest trucks. Justin Trudeau made that argument yesterday defending his use of the Emergencies Act against the protesters. “You can’t hold a city hostage,” he said. “What you can do is vote. What you can do is run for office. That’s how change happens in a democracy.”
It is true that in the last election, in September 2021, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party won 32.6 percent of the popular vote and 160 seats, the lowest popular vote of any ruling party in Canadian history but enough to put together a minority government.
