Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Court rules Trudeau's use of Emergency Act on Freedom Convoy violated Charter of Rights

I’m guessing there’s a whole lotta irritable bowel syndrome going around PM Fluffy’s inner circle tonight. The Emergency Act is Canada’s version of martial law. It suspends your civil rights. It essentially puts democracy on pause for temporary tyranny. That’s why the bar must be very high indeed. Otherwise, some feckless weenie, like, oh… a self confessed admirer of Mao and Fidel, might find himself tempted to invoke it against a bunch of smelly working-class folks with unacceptable opinions. Which is exactly what happened. The court found the inconvenience suffered by civil servants living in Ottawa, working from home on their laptops, did not rise to the level of a national emergency. That strikes me as an all-too-rare case of the court making a sensible decision, which is why Fluffy’s gang immediately announced an appeal! These idiots are determined to give Poilievre the next election. The reason that convoy happened when it did doesn’t get much attention in media. By early 2022 it was widely believed the pandemic was winding down. Things were opening up all over. That’s when Trudeau’s government mandated vaccinations for people who cross the border, like the tens of thousands of truckers who crossed that border every day long before there was a vaccine. They literally risked their lives to make sure our grocery stores could keep selling food. For a brief moment in time, our front-line workers were heroes! That was indeed a brief moment, and an aberration. Politicians went insane with empathy. Doug Ford promised sick days for PSWs, if such a thing can be imagined! But that was then, and this is now. All those goodies that were promised are long forgotten. PSWs still stitch together a poverty wage by working 4 hr shifts in multiple retirement homes. All those homes were getting hvac upgrades! Everybody was gonna have paid sick days! Here’s a thought from the late JFK; “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.” I don’t see anything “revolutionary” about the Freedom Convoy or its organizers. The fact that Trudeau found their protests so threatening that he invoked martial law, puts him firmly on the side of those who make violent revolution inevitable.

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