Hi this is James Patrick, bringing you an update on the Trucker Convoys of Canada and the US.
As many of you know a peaceful convoy of truckers descended upon Ottawa to protest the vaccine mandate in Canada. Truckers who have to drive goods back and forth over the US / Canadian boarder were required to be vaccinated or loose their livelihoods.
One particularly insane edict issued by Canada last year mandated that by November 30th, a Canadian had to be vaccinated to EXIT Canada! Trapped in their own country like in the Soviet Union, vaccination proof was required to enter a bus, train, plane and Canadian boarder guards require vaccine proof to drive out of Canada, their supposedly free country! As a result central American countries like Mexico and Nicaragua were innundated with Canadians that fled their country to before November 30th, 2021. What has the world come to that we have vaccine refugees! And why is the media praising such authoritarian madness? People need to wake up and stop complying immediately or the actions of those running the show will only get more brazen and murderous.
So back to the Truckers. The convoy arrived to Ottawa, Trudeau disappeared for 5 or more days with memes swirling making fun of him. He refused to even meet and discuss anything with the Truckers and slandered them as racists, misogynists and bigots. As a side note: this has become too often today, people blocking one another and not dealing with each other face to face due to cell phones and social media. It’s so important to deal with one another and grow from the challenges it brings. We don’t grow unless we face our fears!
After a week Trudeau called for an end to the protests and after two weeks he declared a state of national emergency and called in the thugs to put an end to the protests. Police and what looked like mercenaries descended upon the peaceful protests and conducted mass arrests. Most of the trucks were stolen from the truckers and the mayor of Ottawa announced they would be auctioning off the trucks to pay the city’s expenses the shutdown caused. So the city racks up bills and blames the truckers for shutting down the city around the Parliament building? What about all the bankruptcies caused by the unending covid restrictions? Can government vehicles be stolen and auctioned off to pay for all the loss of livelihoods that caused? Not a chance.
The Canadian federal government went further and froze bank accounts of the truckers. 39 Canadian truck companies involved with the protests were shut down and those who donated through GoFundMe were warned that they would be investigated for funding terrorism. The $8M donated through the site was frozen and GoFundMe said it would donate the funds to different charities and later backtracked and returned the money to the donors. What Cowards! Planet Lockdown also had our GoFundMe closed back in early 2021 after a month of operations. $8,000 was donated until we had our account closed with no reason at all was given. We just received some amorphous message. Most of these tech companies are just cowards. They politicize everything and stand for nothing but false mottos. It’s times like these that real brave men and women shine while those that go along with the narrative prove their spineless servitude to evil.
While all this was going down a US trucker convoy was forming called the Freedom Convoy. They vowed to descend on Washington DC and lock it down. Over a two week period they crossed the country and got closer to DC. They noticed that advanced military surveillance aircraft was following the convoy across the country, which is a total violation of posse comitatus, utilizing military measures against the domestic population. The US Freedom Convoy saw the chaos and confiscation of trucks that occurred in Canada and worried the same would occur to their convoy so decided upon a different strategy. They encamped 90 minutes outside of the city in Hagerstown Maryland at the Speedway and had many discussions with law enforcement to make sure they wouldn’t run afoul of the law. They were told if they entered DC they would all be arrested so the decided to not enter the city, but circle the beltway everyday, driving the slowest legal speed limit. The police have responded by closing exits around the capitol building which caused intense traffic as well. They just departed DC on their way to California to oppose one of the harshest covid bills proposed that would strip us of all freedoms. Their press release is attached.
I visited the convoy within the first 3 days of them arriving DC and interviewed 5 of the truckers. Here are 4 of the interviews with them:
Burlington Riding Association NewsWe are growing and we are showing signs of starting to win. Our team now has all executive positions filled as well as more new team members. I wanted to thank everybody and take a moment to smell the roses to express my gratitude to you. People are starting to step out of their comfort zones and making a difference. I would be but a hamster spinning on a treadmill, enthusiastic and energetic but standing in one spot if it were not for you. I am sure you have heard me say it many times that I felt so alone until I met you and I am indebted to you for your courage to take a stand. I wanted to share some good news with you as well. The PPC Head Office has offered me a contract to lock me in as your Candidate and I could think of no greater honour. Every little bit helps, every moment stepping out of that comfort zone, every hour to help and any dollar has helped us not only grow, but give hope. Hope that united we will be able to get our parental rights back, our human rights, medical decision rights and our freedom to earn a living. There is a war to fight against Racist Woke Cancel culture as seen in the Bill 67. A dubious economic future with inflation running rampant and Bills like C-223 and S-233 (UBI) threatening our financial security. Our freedom of speech is also under attack with Bills like C10/11 and C36, but together, united as one, with the courage to step up our game I believe we can fight and fight like hell to take back our country.
Captain Airhead Throws Off His Mask and Stomps it Into the Ground
Before he became Prime Minister, Captain Airhead was asked about what government he admired the most. His answer was to praise the “basic dictatorship” of Red China.
This past week he has demonstrated, yet again, that this was not just him saying something stupid off the cuff. It is how he actually thinks. It is not like we had no warning.
The week prior to that, Matt Taibbi had said that this was his Ceaușescu moment. This was in reference to the final days of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu who, as the Iron Curtain was crumbling, Communism was in retreat, and his populace were uniting against him, clung to the delusion that he was secure in power and could do whatever he wanted. It would appear that Captain Airhead has decided to make this his Tiananmen Square moment instead. It is astonishing that someone as focused on his image as Captain Airhead – his image is all that there is to him, he has no substance whatsoever – would think this a good move.
In a bid to upgrade himself from Captain Airhead to Generalissimo Airhead, he began the week on St. Valentine’s Day by announcing that he was invoking the Emergency Measures Act to crush a peaceful protest. The Freedom Convoy protest was initiated by long-haul truckers a few weeks ago when, as governments around the world began easing bat flu restrictions, and provincial governments began to talk of doing the same, Captain Airhead decided to do the opposite. His Health Minister announced that he would be talking with provincial governments about imposing universal vaccine mandates. The government of Lower Canada then took the step of announcing that it would introduce a significant tax on the unvaccinated. Even as this was going on, the Omicron variant was disproving the government’s claims that vaccines are the only way out of the pandemic and that the unvaccinated are to blame for how long it has gone on. Meanwhile Captain Airhead removed, not a restriction, but an exemption to a restriction – the exemption for long-haul truck drivers to the vaccine mandate for crossing the border with the USA. There was no reasonable justification for this. It was just Captain Airhead, like the current occupant of the White House who did the same, being a dick. The next thing you know, truckers descended on Ottawa in the largest convoy in history, parked their trucks along Wellington Street where Parliament is located, and announced their intention to not leave until all the basic Charter rights and freedoms that had been curtailed during the pandemic had been restored.
Remember that. The Freedom Convoy was a single issue protest. That issue is freedom which is not, as the idiots at the CBC tried to claim, a codeword for something nefarious, racist, and extremist. Freedom is itself a basic right, and specific freedoms are identified as “fundamental” in the second section of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Each of these has been severely curtailed by public health order over the last two years. Vaccine mandates – telling people that they have to agree to have a foreign substance injected into their veins or lose their jobs, livelihoods, and everything if they don’t – are the biggest affront to freedom we have seen in the name of public health yet. The freedoms the Freedom Convoy wants restored, not just for themselves but for all Canadians, are these freedoms, freedoms supposedly guaranteed by our constitution, spelled out in the Charter the adding of which to our constitution, Captain Airhead’s father oversaw. Captain Airhead thinks very little of freedom. Just before the Freedom Convoy started a video of an interview he had given a Lower Canadian television station last September before the last Dominion election resurfaced. In it he hurled all sorts of abuse at people who believe that they should be free to decide for themselves what they put in their bodies and actually suggested that we should be asking whether we should tolerate such people as a society.
The Freedom Convoy has been, despite Captain Airhead’s claim to the contrary, a peaceful protest. The truckers and the massive number of other Canadians who turned up to support them did not engage in the sort of violent and destructive behaviour that is typical of the kind of protests Captain Airhead endorses, like anti-pipeline environmentalist protests, Black Lives Matters riots, or the Cultural Maoist Year Zero assault on Canadian history that took place last summer. The most violent incident until this week was when, during a related protest in Winnipeg, somebody drove his vehicle into the crowd. This person was an Antifa thug, attacking the protestors, not the protestors assaulting anybody else.
Note that I said “until this week”. There has been more violence this week, but once again it was violence perpetrated against the protestors rather than by them. This time it was violence by the state. On Friday, as Captain Airhead suspended the Parliamentary debate on his illegal power grab – and it is illegal, because even if he manages to get enough votes in Parliament to confirm it the situation does not meet the requirements of the Emergency Measures Act itself for its own invocation – he sent his stormtroopers in to crush those protesters who were speaking out for all Canadians who still believe that their freedom belongs to them and is not the Prime Minister’s to give and take away at will. Ottawa police, armed with riot gear, descended upon the protestors on horseback, trampling and beating them. Journalists like Andrew Lawton who were there reporting on this violent crackdown on peaceful protestors were also attacked with pepper spray by the police. Indeed, the next morning a journalist, Alexa Lavoie was clubbed by the police and shot in the leg with a gun loaded with tear gas. No, contrary to what the Ottawa police and legacy media are saying, the police are not acting in self defence.
The weekend prior, GiveSendGo, the crowdfunding platform that the Freedom Convoy had turned to after GoFundMe, at the behest of Captain Airhead, had cancelled their fundraiser and announced that they would be giving the money to other causes instead (backing down on this and refunding the donors only when threatened with fraud investigations by American authorities) had been hacked, The hacked information on the donors was then published, in some cases on social media by people like Captain Airhead’s disgraced former adviser Butts, in others by media organizations sympathetic to Captain Airhead, including the Ottawa Citizen, the Washington Post, and even the Crown broadcaster the CBC. Predictably this led to donors being harassed and threatened by woke goons and in some cases fired and forced to close their businesses. The hacking and releasing of hacked information is illegal in itself, of course, and in this case it is also a huge act of violence – incitement – against the protestors – and their supporters – which can be laid at Captain Airhead’s feet. It failed to accomplish what was presumably Captain Airhead’s intention – bolstering his claim that the protest is an insurrection on the part of Nazis funded by foreign organizations and governments. The hacked data instead revealed that while there were more American donors, most of the money had come from Canadians, most of the donations were small, and the larger donations were from people who cannot be credibly accused of being the sort of people Captain Airhead claims were funding the Convoy.
His other attempt at backing up his false claims against the protestors by trying to tie them to a cache of arms captured near Coutts failed as well. The people with the weapons were not part of the main body of the Coutts border blockade, which was peacefully resolved without the use of Captain Airhead’s extra powers, and when Captain Airhead’s new Public Safety Minister attempted to make the connection between the armed group and the Freedom Convoy organizers he was unable to do so convincingly when faced with tough questions from the media.
Meanwhile in Parliament this week, Captain Airhead and the ministers under him dodged questions about the justification for their actions by giving non-answers, telling outright lies, attacking the members of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition collectively and individually, or simply walking out of the House.
None of this behaviour on his part should surprise anyone. Even if his remarks about China’s “basic dictatorship” were taken as a poor joke the fact that the man is a control freak, who thinks he can do whatever he wants, who has no shame whatsoever, who will shed false tears about the misdeeds, supposed and actual, of past Canadian leaders, but who never gives a real apology for anything he has done wrong himself has been evident throughout his premiership. Whenever he praises our “democracy” by “democracy” he means “elected dictatorship”. Several years ago he bailed out the Crown broadcaster, the CBC, and the larger privately-owned legacy media companies, to the tune of billions of dollars. When he did so he cited the importance of a free media in a democracy. He did so with a straight face. The effect of his bailout, of course, was that the media in Canada became anything but free. The legacy media, Crown and private, had long had a Liberal bias, but now they began to resemble the sycophantic press of North Korea. A free media is important to a functioning democracy because it keeps tabs on the government, reports their misdoings, and calls them out. Captain Airhead has taken a most adversarial attitude towards the few private media companies who continue to do this. He has several times banned them from election debates – the courts had to overrule him. Clearly what Captain Airhead means by a free media is a media controlled by him and free of dissent from his views. Such a media is indeed important to “democracy” in his sense of “elected dictatorship”.
When Canada was founded, the Fathers of Confederation made sure to bestow upon us the best form of government the world has ever known, the parliamentary monarchy system, under which personal freedom has historically flourished like under none other. It has been almost a century since the first attempt by a Liberal Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King – to subvert the sovereignty of Crown-in-Parliament and turn the Prime Minister’s Office into a de facto elected dictatorship. This was a serious assault on our constitution which has had lasting damage, but Mackenzie King’s dictatorial instincts were mild in comparison to those of the first Prime Minister Trudeau, who never met a Communist dictator he didn’t like. Captain Airhead, however, makes his father look like a humble man with an abhorrence of the abuse of government power by comparison.
By suspending Parliamentary debate on the day he ordered a violent crackdown on a peaceful protest he has made it impossible to conceal his true nature any longer, not that it was particularly well concealed before. Those who cannot see him for what he is now, never will. Indeed, those who cannot see him for what he is now, cannot see anything at all. —
Before he became Prime Minister, Captain Airhead was asked about what government he admired the most. His answer was to praise the “basic dictatorship” of Red China.
This past week he has demonstrated, yet again, that this was not just him saying something stupid off the cuff. It is how he actually thinks. It is not like we had no warning.
The week prior to that, Matt Taibbi had said that this was his Ceaușescu moment. This was in reference to the final days of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu who, as the Iron Curtain was crumbling, Communism was in retreat, and his populace were uniting against him, clung to the delusion that he was secure in power and could do whatever he wanted. It would appear that Captain Airhead has decided to make this his Tiananmen Square moment instead. It is astonishing that someone as focused on his image as Captain Airhead – his image is all that there is to him, he has no substance whatsoever – would think this a good move.
In a bid to upgrade himself from Captain Airhead to Generalissimo Airhead, he began the week on St. Valentine’s Day by announcing that he was invoking the Emergency Measures Act to crush a peaceful protest. The Freedom Convoy protest was initiated by long-haul truckers a few weeks ago when, as governments around the world began easing bat flu restrictions, and provincial governments began to talk of doing the same, Captain Airhead decided to do the opposite. His Health Minister announced that he would be talking with provincial governments about imposing universal vaccine mandates. The government of Lower Canada then took the step of announcing that it would introduce a significant tax on the unvaccinated. Even as this was going on, the Omicron variant was disproving the government’s claims that vaccines are the only way out of the pandemic and that the unvaccinated are to blame for how long it has gone on. Meanwhile Captain Airhead removed, not a restriction, but an exemption to a restriction – the exemption for long-haul truck drivers to the vaccine mandate for crossing the border with the USA. There was no reasonable justification for this. It was just Captain Airhead, like the current occupant of the White House who did the same, being a dick. The next thing you know, truckers descended on Ottawa in the largest convoy in history, parked their trucks along Wellington Street where Parliament is located, and announced their intention to not leave until all the basic Charter rights and freedoms that had been curtailed during the pandemic had been restored.
Remember that. The Freedom Convoy was a single issue protest. That issue is freedom which is not, as the idiots at the CBC tried to claim, a codeword for something nefarious, racist, and extremist. Freedom is itself a basic right, and specific freedoms are identified as “fundamental” in the second section of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Each of these has been severely curtailed by public health order over the last two years. Vaccine mandates – telling people that they have to agree to have a foreign substance injected into their veins or lose their jobs, livelihoods, and everything if they don’t – are the biggest affront to freedom we have seen in the name of public health yet. The freedoms the Freedom Convoy wants restored, not just for themselves but for all Canadians, are these freedoms, freedoms supposedly guaranteed by our constitution, spelled out in the Charter the adding of which to our constitution, Captain Airhead’s father oversaw. Captain Airhead thinks very little of freedom. Just before the Freedom Convoy started a video of an interview he had given a Lower Canadian television station last September before the last Dominion election resurfaced. In it he hurled all sorts of abuse at people who believe that they should be free to decide for themselves what they put in their bodies and actually suggested that we should be asking whether we should tolerate such people as a society.
The Freedom Convoy has been, despite Captain Airhead’s claim to the contrary, a peaceful protest. The truckers and the massive number of other Canadians who turned up to support them did not engage in the sort of violent and destructive behaviour that is typical of the kind of protests Captain Airhead endorses, like anti-pipeline environmentalist protests, Black Lives Matters riots, or the Cultural Maoist Year Zero assault on Canadian history that took place last summer. The most violent incident until this week was when, during a related protest in Winnipeg, somebody drove his vehicle into the crowd. This person was an Antifa thug, attacking the protestors, not the protestors assaulting anybody else.
Note that I said “until this week”. There has been more violence this week, but once again it was violence perpetrated against the protestors rather than by them. This time it was violence by the state. On Friday, as Captain Airhead suspended the Parliamentary debate on his illegal power grab – and it is illegal, because even if he manages to get enough votes in Parliament to confirm it the situation does not meet the requirements of the Emergency Measures Act itself for its own invocation – he sent his stormtroopers in to crush those protesters who were speaking out for all Canadians who still believe that their freedom belongs to them and is not the Prime Minister’s to give and take away at will. Ottawa police, armed with riot gear, descended upon the protestors on horseback, trampling and beating them. Journalists like Andrew Lawton who were there reporting on this violent crackdown on peaceful protestors were also attacked with pepper spray by the police. Indeed, the next morning a journalist, Alexa Lavoie was clubbed by the police and shot in the leg with a gun loaded with tear gas. No, contrary to what the Ottawa police and legacy media are saying, the police are not acting in self defence.
The weekend prior, GiveSendGo, the crowdfunding platform that the Freedom Convoy had turned to after GoFundMe, at the behest of Captain Airhead, had cancelled their fundraiser and announced that they would be giving the money to other causes instead (backing down on this and refunding the donors only when threatened with fraud investigations by American authorities) had been hacked, The hacked information on the donors was then published, in some cases on social media by people like Captain Airhead’s disgraced former adviser Butts, in others by media organizations sympathetic to Captain Airhead, including the Ottawa Citizen, the Washington Post, and even the Crown broadcaster the CBC. Predictably this led to donors being harassed and threatened by woke goons and in some cases fired and forced to close their businesses. The hacking and releasing of hacked information is illegal in itself, of course, and in this case it is also a huge act of violence – incitement – against the protestors – and their supporters – which can be laid at Captain Airhead’s feet. It failed to accomplish what was presumably Captain Airhead’s intention – bolstering his claim that the protest is an insurrection on the part of Nazis funded by foreign organizations and governments. The hacked data instead revealed that while there were more American donors, most of the money had come from Canadians, most of the donations were small, and the larger donations were from people who cannot be credibly accused of being the sort of people Captain Airhead claims were funding the Convoy.
His other attempt at backing up his false claims against the protestors by trying to tie them to a cache of arms captured near Coutts failed as well. The people with the weapons were not part of the main body of the Coutts border blockade, which was peacefully resolved without the use of Captain Airhead’s extra powers, and when Captain Airhead’s new Public Safety Minister attempted to make the connection between the armed group and the Freedom Convoy organizers he was unable to do so convincingly when faced with tough questions from the media.
Meanwhile in Parliament this week, Captain Airhead and the ministers under him dodged questions about the justification for their actions by giving non-answers, telling outright lies, attacking the members of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition collectively and individually, or simply walking out of the House.
None of this behaviour on his part should surprise anyone. Even if his remarks about China’s “basic dictatorship” were taken as a poor joke the fact that the man is a control freak, who thinks he can do whatever he wants, who has no shame whatsoever, who will shed false tears about the misdeeds, supposed and actual, of past Canadian leaders, but who never gives a real apology for anything he has done wrong himself has been evident throughout his premiership. Whenever he praises our “democracy” by “democracy” he means “elected dictatorship”. Several years ago he bailed out the Crown broadcaster, the CBC, and the larger privately-owned legacy media companies, to the tune of billions of dollars. When he did so he cited the importance of a free media in a democracy. He did so with a straight face. The effect of his bailout, of course, was that the media in Canada became anything but free. The legacy media, Crown and private, had long had a Liberal bias, but now they began to resemble the sycophantic press of North Korea. A free media is important to a functioning democracy because it keeps tabs on the government, reports their misdoings, and calls them out. Captain Airhead has taken a most adversarial attitude towards the few private media companies who continue to do this. He has several times banned them from election debates – the courts had to overrule him. Clearly what Captain Airhead means by a free media is a media controlled by him and free of dissent from his views. Such a media is indeed important to “democracy” in his sense of “elected dictatorship”.
When Canada was founded, the Fathers of Confederation made sure to bestow upon us the best form of government the world has ever known, the parliamentary monarchy system, under which personal freedom has historically flourished like under none other. It has been almost a century since the first attempt by a Liberal Prime Minister – William Lyon Mackenzie King – to subvert the sovereignty of Crown-in-Parliament and turn the Prime Minister’s Office into a de facto elected dictatorship. This was a serious assault on our constitution which has had lasting damage, but Mackenzie King’s dictatorial instincts were mild in comparison to those of the first Prime Minister Trudeau, who never met a Communist dictator he didn’t like. Captain Airhead, however, makes his father look like a humble man with an abhorrence of the abuse of government power by comparison.
RTC bans Russian state-controlled TV channels RT, RT France from Canadian airwaves
[As if the CBC isn’t state propaganda, the taxpayer-funded voice of the Ottawa elite. Trudeau and the CRTC’s decision to deny access to Russia Today denies Canadians the opportunity to access a different point of view. Trudeau, the arch control freak, who desperately wants to limit what Canadians can say on the Internet, complains: “There is a significant amount of disinformation circulating from Russia, including on social media, and we all need to keep calling it out.” Perhaps, there is and in Ukrainian media too. Remember to Snake Island Hoax — the 13 brave Ukrainian soldiers who answered a Russian gunboats demand to surrender with “fuck you” and were all blown up. Truth: They surrendered and are all alive. Canada’s Fake News media is also notorious for its lies and suppression. Canadians should have the right to access foreign media and judge for themselves. — Paul Fromm]
Broadcasters Rogers, Bell and Shaw removed RT from their networks in February
Peter Zimonjic · CBC News · Posted: Mar 16, 2022 1:24 PM ET | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
A placard protesting Russian broadcaster RT is displayed at a rally in Toronto against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last month. (Chris Helgren/Reuters)
Canada’s telecommunications regulator has removed the state-controlled Russian television network RT from Canadian airwaves.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced Wednesday afternoon that it was removing RT and RT France from the list of non-Canadian programming services and stations authorized for distribution in Canada.
The decision means broadcasters in Canada are no longer legally permitted to carry the channel.
The multilingual 24-hour news channel launched in 2005, when it was known as Russia Today, and now appears in more than 100 countries, according to its website.
Funded by the Russian government, the channel has long been described by critics as a propaganda outlet for the Kremlin.
“RT’s programming is not consistent with the standards against which Canadian services are measured nor the policy objectives set out in the Broadcasting Act,” the CRTC said in its decision.WATCH | Canada bans Russian state-controlled RT:
Canada bans Russian state media from airwaves
5 hours agoDuration 2:06Canada’s telecommunications regulator, the CRTC, has removed the state-controlled Russian television network RT from Canadian airwaves. 2:06
“The CRTC is also concerned with programming from a foreign country that seeks to undermine the sovereignty of another country, demean Canadians of a particular ethnic background and undermine democratic institutions within Canada.”
The decision is not a surprise. On March 3, the CRTC published a “preliminary view” that suggested it was inclined to ban the channel.
“The Commission is of the preliminary view that RT’s programming may not be consistent with the Commissions’s broadcasting regulations, in particular, the abuse comment provisions such as those set out in Section 5 of the Television Broadcasting Regulations 1987,” the CRTC said on its website.
Under Section 5, abuse is defined as words or images that “expose an individual or a group or class of individuals to hatred or contempt on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age or mental or physical disability.”
Broadcasters pull RT’s plug
The CRTC said in its decision Wednesday that non-Canadian news services should be held to the same standards as Canadian news outlets.
“Freedom of speech and a range of perspectives are a necessary part of our democracy. However, it is a privilege and not a right to be broadcast in Canada,” said CRTC CEO Ian Scott in a statement.
Jason Woycheshyn, president of the Ukrainian Canadian Bar Association, was one of the individuals who made a submission to the CRTC. He asked the CRTC to ban RT, arguing that there is “no need [for] or interest” in Russian propaganda in Canada.
“That’s the basis upon which we are requesting that the CRTC ban all access, whether it be on the airwaves, television, radio or internet, to Russia Today or any other state-sponsored propaganda media Russia is currently promoting,” he said.
Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of state-funded RT television network, right, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kremlin’s first deputy chief of staff, Alexei Gromov, left, attend an exhibition marking RT’s 10th anniversary in Moscow on Dec. 10, 2015. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo/Associated Press)
On Feb. 27, Rogers, Bell and Shaw announced that they would no longer carry RT.
“Customers who subscribe to RT as a pick and pay service will receive a credit in the next billing cycle,” Shaw said in a tweet at the time.
The following day, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that while broadcasters had started removing RT from their lineups, he would ask the CRTC to review the broadcaster’s licence to ensure that any decision to ban the channel goes through an arm’s-length process.
“There is a significant amount of disinformation circulating from Russia, including on social media, and we all need to keep calling it out,” Trudeau said at the time.
The day after Trudeau’s announcement, Regina-based Access Communications announced that it too was removing RT from its AccessNexTV Stream lineup.
Because she dared to donate $50 to the truckersImage Credit:LeslieLauren / Getty ImagesShareLIVE
Canadian MP Mark Strahl related how a single mother in his district has had her bank account totally frozen by the Trudeau regime after she completely legally donated $50 to the trucker Freedom Convoy.
“Briane is a single mom from Chilliwack working a minimum wage job,” Strahl tweeted, adding “She gave $50 to the convoy when it was 100% legal. She hasn’t participated in any other way. Her bank account has now been frozen.”
The MP further urged “This is who Justin Trudeau is actually targeting with his Emergencies Act orders.”
In a follow up post, Strahl noted that the mother was attacked online by anti-freedom trolls after his initial tweet.
“I am not going to help you dox her,” Strahl asserted, adding “I know who she is and I won’t stop fighting for her.”
This is just one of hundreds if not thousands of cases, however the exact number of accounts that have been frozen is unknown because, despite the demands of MPs, the government will not provide further information.
In addition to targeting bank accounts, the mayor of Ottawa Jim Watson has suggested confiscating vehicles from freedom protesters and selling them, thus taking away their livelihoods.
“This is costing a small fortune for the taxpayers of Ottawa,” Watson claimed, adding “That’s one of the reasons why under the Emergencies Act, I’ve asked our solicitor and our city manager: How can we keep the tow trucks and the campers and the vans and everything else that we’ve confiscated, and sell those pieces of equipment to help recoup some of the costs that our taxpayers are absorbing? So that’s one of the provisions of the Emergencies Act, and we have been a beneficiary of the Emergencies Act.”
The tyrannical actions of the Canadian government are now on show for all to see. Conservative Shadow Minister for Finance Pierre Poilievre slammed Trudeau’s “unjustifiable power grab,” and specifically addressed the targeting of those who have donated to the “wrong political cause.”
Poilievre described it as “Not just an attack on their finances, but on their personal security.”
He emphasised “If your bank account is frozen, you can’t buy food, you can’t buy fuel, you can’t pay your children’s daycare fees, and you can, under this law, face that personal attack without being charged with a single solitary crime.”
Poilievre further warned “This is time limited, but his own finance minister said she wants some of the tools to be permanent. He said it will be geographically targetted, yet his own parliamentary secretary for justice said ‘the act technically applies to all of Canada,’ so the rules apply everywhere and indefinitely.”
ProtecPolice Brutality – Time to Pick a Sideing Faith, Family and Freedom
Police have sworn an oath to protect the citizens of Canada and to uphold the law. Those that are in violation must be documented/recorded and held to account. SeeCall to Action below! Trudeau’s desperate attempt to hold on to power by invoking the Emergencies Act changes nothing for Canadians. First of all, he has not demonstrably proved that there is an emergency and in fact had to fabricate one in order to facilitate his subversive attack as he grapples to hold on to power. Secondly, even if he succeeds in prolonging the Emergencies Act it states very clearly in the preamble that the Charter of Rights and Bill of Rights are “fundamental rights that are not to be limited or abridged even in a national emergency.” Trudeau doesn’t have a leg to stand on. He knows it and this is his last hurrah. It is critical for Canadians to rise up en-masse in civil disobedience, Canada wide, to support the truckers. Officers Holding the Line and Siding with the People!
Join Tanya with special guests Daniel Bulford, former RCMP (protection detail for the PM) and Vincent Gircys, retired OPP Officer. Daniel and Vincent have been in Ottawa on the front line, supporting the peaceful assembly, holding the line and encouraging others to do the same. Daniel and Vincent have both been outspoken in holding the government to account for their draconian measures, and in support of our democracy and freedom. Register in Advance.
Daniel was recently arrested and then released without charge, like the vast majority. Trudeau, with the help of the Ottawa police, is attempting to use fear and intimidation as he struggles to maintain power. Read More.
What to Say to Ottawa Police when Stopped at Checkpoints
Hon. Brian Peckford is the last surviving architect of the Charter and in his own words he very clearly states, “Section 1 of the Charter of Rights and Freedom’s intent was to apply to war, insurrection and if the state was in peril. The Ottawa situation hardly fits into any of these categories, now does it? That’s why the Charter is in the Constitution Act and not just another Federal or Provincial Act.”
Is this Really Happening in Canada?!
The police spin was that the crowd was too close to the police line and so it was necessary to use the horses to create some space. The media spin said a bike was thrown at a horse. The reality was that an older, Mohawk lady who had a mobility walker, and who was having a peaceful conversation with the police, was brutally trampled by police on horseback. Read more.
Police Brutally Targeting Independent Reporters
Appalling Conduct by Ottawa Police
The question being asked should be:
Who are they and where did THEY come from? Police take an oath in Canada to serve and protect citizens, not a corrupt government.
If your rights have been violated or you have been assaulted by the police, file a complaint and request an investigation.
It is Effective to File Complaints Against Police
The Ontario Special Investigation Unit have commenced investigations into two police-involved incidents that occurred at the protest in Ottawa yesterday. They are seeking video evidence of the events.
Ottawa Police Chief Complicit to Treason?
There is no question, if you are not for us you are against us. If you support Trudeau’s unlawful and illegal actions, you are an enemy of the State. Is the Ottawa Police Chief being compensated well to commit these offenses against his fellow Canadians?
His announcement is meant to intimidate and instill fear. This posturing is evident when you consider that nearly all of the citizens who were recently arrested at the “peaceful assembly” were released with no charge!
An Appeal to Police to Stand with the People
Chrystia Facsist Freeland: Freezing Bank Accounts?
Banks and other financial institutions are now legally required to monitor for dissidents and freeze their assets if they suspect someone has participated in dissident activities. On top of that, they’ve become a part of the State’s surveillance apparatus — they have to tell the RCMP or the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), account details of potential dissidents. Read more.
We need to appeal to law enforcement and ask them to not participate in the illegal actions of the government.
Call to Action!
We MUST call on law enforcement to stand WITH the people they swore an oath to serve and protect.
If an officer has violated your rights, file a complaint. Be sure to keep a record and compile evidence.
Write the Senate and appeal to them to not support the Emergency Measures Act.
Remember: Freedom of speech, thought, belief and the right to life, liberty and security of the person are guaranteed. We do not need to beg, barter or ask for them…they are ours for the taking.
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Paul Fromm on “The Political Cesspool” Reports on Trudeau’s Emergency Measures to Crush Dissent in Canada
Hosts James Edwards and Keith Alexander set the stage for another busy show. Paul Fromm, Director of the Canadian Association for Free Expression, co-stars this hour when he delivers an update on the riveting fight for freedom in the Great White North.https://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/radio-show-hour-1-2022-02-19/
The police, armed with riot gear, are brutalizing and arresting peaceful demonstrators from the truckers’ convoy.
Meanwhile, Parliament is not sitting today because of this police operation. All parties agreed to stay away while the regime cracks down on dissidents.
Just like in a banana republic.
They should have been debating Trudeau’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act.
The Emergencies Act replaced the War Measures Act in 1988. The only other times in Canadian history that it was invoked were during the First and Second World Wars, and during the October Crisis in 1970.
There is no emergency in Canada. No war, no insurrection, no terrorist attack, no sanitary or environmental catastrophe that justifies invoking this law.
It’s outright illegal, undemocratic, and unconstitutional for this government to give itself exceptional powers to deal with peaceful demonstrators.
It’s a power grab on Trudeau’s part to crush dissidence, that’s all it is.
Trudeau and his Finance minister Chrystia Freeland have given themselves the power to freeze the bank accounts not only of the organizers of the Freedom Convoy, but of anyone who is suspected of helping and funding them.
And we’re supposed to believe that a government that has violated our Constitution and our rights and freedoms for two year will not abuse these new powers?
Frederick, it’s a dark day for Canada.
But it’s not over. We will continue to fight this authoritarian government, and bring back freedom, respect and justice to this country.
Justin Trudeau’s bodyguards beat up REBEL NEWS reporter David Menzies
I’m angry and sad at the same time.
Justin Trudeau’s bodyguards beat up our reporter David Menzies. It was completely unprovoked.
David was standing on a public sidewalk outside a public event where Trudeau was going to a Liberal Christmas party. David was doing what all media do — waiting patiently to call out a question to Trudeau as he walked in.
But Trudeau’s bodyguards know Rebel News. And they hate Rebel News. Because their boss hates Rebel News.
Trudeau says it again and again. He says we’re not real reporters. He says we don’t deserve any respect. He publicly blames us for the sorry state of Canada. He personally bans us from attending public press conferences. And if we manage to get in, he insults us, instead of answering our questions.
So after demonizing us and denormalizing us and defaming us for five years, his staff got the message.
They smashed David’s face against the wall — you can clearly see that David was so stunned, he couldn’t speak straight. They beat him up, they bloodied him. They destroyed his property.
David had to go to the doctor later that night — his ears were still ringing and he was bloodied and cut.
There is no excuse for this.
David did nothing wrong. He was never arrested. He was never charged with anything. He committed no crime — he literally was just standing on the sidewalk, waiting to ask a question.
The crime was committed by Trudeau’s thuggish bodyguards — who knew they were doing something evil, and refused to tell David their names, despite the legal requirement to do so.
They beat him up just because he was with Rebel News, and Trudeau has let the world know Rebel News does not deserve respect.
Enough is enough.
Every day, Trudeau becomes more of an authoritarian bully. He rules by decree, not bothering to consult Parliament. He’s ordered the government to crack down on his opponents on the Internet — specifically against YouTube channels like ours. And of course he has banned Rebel News from attending any press conferences or even covering the Leaders’ Debates during the election campaign.
(That was quite a telling moment: mere hours after the Federal Court of Canada ruled that Rebel News must be accredited at the Leaders’ Debates, Trudeau refused to answer our reporters’ questions, saying we were not in fact journalists — even though the court just said that we were. He defied and disrespected the court order upholding our Charter rights. Is it any wonder that his personal bodyguards feel they don’t have to obey the law, either?)
This is the worst thing that has happened to a Rebel News reporter in our seven years. We’ve had street thugs and Antifa members attack our reporters. But never a government bodyguard.
The Toronto Police Service came quickly, but they refused to lay charges against Trudeau’s thugs, despite the assault being caught on video. They know it would be career suicide to cross Trudeau.
So we have to go to court ourselves.
Today we filed a lawsuit on behalf of David. It’s very simple — just 10 pages long. Click here to read it for yourself.
It details the vicious assault by Trudeau’s henchmen. And it also describes how this was entirely foreseeable: for five years Trudeau has demonized us as an enemy. It was only a matter of time before his personal staff took the hint and beat a Rebel News reporter up to please their master.
This isn’t how we live in Canada. This is the kind of thing that you might expect from an authoritarian regime like Turkey or Russia or Venezuela. Imagine if Stephen Harper’s bodyguards had beat up a CBC reporter! But I fear that because most of the media is on Trudeau’s payroll now too, they’ll be silent — or even say that David “deserved it”.
Please help us fight back for David. It’s not just David who got beat up by Trudeau; it’s the very idea of a free and independent press, and the right of non-government journalists to ask questions of our political class.
If Trudeau and his thugs can get away with this, what’s next? Raiding our Rebel News offices? Jailing our reporters?
This cannot stand.
If you agree with me, please click here, or go to StandWithDavid.com. Help chip in to cover our lawsuit against Trudeau — we’re suing the RCMP, the three officers involved, and the government itself. (You can see our full lawsuit by clicking here.)
This isn’t about money — it’s about holding Trudeau’s goons to account. A lawsuit like this could easily cost us $75,000 in legal fees. It really is a David versus Goliath story — and I stand with David. And if you do too, please go to StandWithDavid.com — thanks.
And while you’re there, please sign our petition to Brenda Lucki, Trudeau’s hand-picked RCMP commissioner, who has done nothing but protect Trudeau and investigate his enemies. Tell her that she must suspend her three thugs who beat up David, and call in an outside investigator to review their misconduct. At that same website you can also click on an email that will be sent directly to Brenda Lucki.
I’ve watched that video of David being assaulted three times, and each time it makes me feel worse. Not just for how brutish the RCMP has become towards David himself but also for how brutish they have become towards our freedoms.
Please help me stand with David.
Yours truly,
Ezra Levant
P.S. David did nothing wrong. He was standing on a sidewalk, waiting to ask a question of Trudeau as he walked in to his lavish Christmas party (mask-free of course; but you’re supposed to cancel your family Christmas gathering). Trudeau’s thugs attacked him simply because he works for Rebel News.
P.P.S. Trudeau and the RCMP have unlimited resources. The last time we took them to court, they sent SEVEN government lawyers to fight against us. (That was when they banned us from the Leaders’ Debates). But we won that battle, and I believe we’ll win this one. We just need your help to pay for the lawsuit — please click here to help us. If you give us the tools, we’ll finish the job. (Thanks.)
P.P.P.S. If bodyguards for a conservative politician had beat up a liberal journalist, what would be the reaction from the Media Party? It would be the only thing they would talk about until the politician resigned and the bodyguards were prosecuted. I predict we won’t hear a peep from the Media Party — they’re all on Trudeau’s payroll, and they don’t want to be roughed up either. Please click here to help.
