{"id":7238,"date":"2022-02-18T16:22:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T21:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=7238"},"modified":"2022-02-18T16:22:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T21:22:52","slug":"its-a-dark-day-for-canada-maxime-bernier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=7238","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s A Dark Day for Canada &#8212; Maxime Bernier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">It&#8217;s A Dark Day for Canada &#8212; Maxime Bernier<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MAXIME-BERNIER-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/MAXIME-BERNIER-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7239\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is violence in the streets of Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The police, armed with riot gear, are brutalizing and arresting peaceful demonstrators from the truckers\u2019 convoy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Parliament is not sitting today because of this police operation. All parties agreed to stay away while the regime cracks down on dissidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just like in a banana republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They should have been debating Trudeau\u2019s decision to invoke the <em>Emergencies Act<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Emergencies Act<\/em> replaced the <em>War Measures Act<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>There is no emergency in Canada. No war, no insurrection, no terrorist attack, no sanitary or environmental catastrophe that justifies invoking this law.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s outright illegal, undemocratic, and unconstitutional for this government to give itself exceptional powers to deal with peaceful demonstrators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It\u2019s a power grab on Trudeau\u2019s part to crush dissidence, that\u2019s all it is.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we\u2019re 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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frederick, it\u2019s a dark day for Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>But it\u2019s not over. We will continue to fight this authoritarian government, and bring back freedom, respect and justice to this country.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t despair. Stay strong and free.<br>-Max<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s A Dark Day for Canada &#8212; Maxime Bernier There is violence in the streets of Ottawa. The police, armed with riot gear, are brutalizing and arresting peaceful demonstrators from the truckers\u2019 convoy. Meanwhile, Parliament is not sitting today because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=7238\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1290,4010,3965,560,1823],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7240,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7238\/revisions\/7240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}