The blowhards at Fox News are up in arms about what's happening in Ottawa. But, as a counterpoint, consider this editorial in The Washington Post:
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is justified in invoking an emergency law enabling enhanced government powers to end the protest that has paralyzed the capital city of Ottawa, savaged public order and inflicted significant damage on the world’s 10th-largest economy.
The prime minister’s unprecedented decision to use the Emergencies Act is also risky, as Mr. Trudeau clearly understands. Some of the protesters, whose ranks include an array of extremists, have signaled through intimidation, threats and aggressive conduct that they do not intend to leave Ottawa without a fight.
Mr. Trudeau will have to tread carefully to avoid giving them one. He has already wisely ruled out deploying the military to unclog the city’s streets, which have been paralyzed since late January with tractor-trailers, blaring their horns and rumbling on diesel fuel. Nonetheless, among other expanded powers, the emergency law grants his government the right to compel towing companies to remove the trucks, which some had said they were reluctant to do. The potential for violence is real.
It's pretty clear that those directing the occupation of Ottawa have an American connection. But not all Americans support this insurrection:
The protest, which has broadened into a tantrum against the Trudeau government generally, has reached a stage where it has moved beyond a legitimate expression of political opinion and dissent. By illegally occupying streets in downtown Ottawa, it has upended daily life in a city of 1 million people. It has broadened to menace supply chains by closing bridges carrying traffic to and from the United States, including, for nearly a week, a crossing near Detroit vital to the auto industry. In language by turns unhinged and menacing, it has demanded the removal or overthrow of Mr. Trudeau, who was just reelected to a third term in September.
That the protesters enjoy bellowing the word “liberty” does not negate the fact that their demands are blatantly antidemocratic and anti-constitutional. What they really favor is “liberty” from democratic norms.
Fundamentally, the protesters are engaged in a resolute effort to play havoc with the strictures of civilized society because they are disgruntled with the actions of a fairly elected government. The government is right to proceed with caution to restore order.
I suspect the people behind all this never read The Washington Post.
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I suspect the WaPo is beyond their reading ability and so, by definition, it's fake news. Here's the sort of genius we're dealing with at the MB border blockade:
“I’m risking everything I have,” said Jake Klassen, 39, who has been a truck driver for nearly two decades and drives three weeks of the month hauling loads to the U.S. as an owner-operator. “I want to be able to have my own choice.”
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Klassen said he hasn’t been able to visit his nine-year-old daughter in months. She is receiving palliative care at St. Amant, a care residence in Winnipeg, but due to restrictions that require visitors to be fully vaccinated, Klassen and his wife can’t see her.
“This is something worth fighting for,” he said.
Hard to imagine having your head so far up your ass that you'd rather shut down the border than get vaxxed to see your dying child!
Cap
That's remarkable, Cap. That's remarkably stupid.
I find Cap's comment rather interesting. I'm guessing here, but I tend to think this guy is from Steinbach in Manitoba, south of Winnipeg and is a completely "dry" town because it is run by a strong Mennonite community.
He can't work because he can't get into the US and he hasn't seen his (obviously terminal) daughter for months, all on his own choice. BECAUSE HIS CHOICE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYTHING INCLUDING EARNING ENOUGH TO FEED HIS FAMILY OR HIS CRITICALLY ILL DAUGHTER ABLE TO SEE HER PARENTS BEFORE SHE PASSES AWAY!!! Just freakin' marvellous.
He's undoubtedly a member of the strict Mennonite community that runs Steinbach and firmly believes his daughter is just fine because she is anxiously waiting to be welcomed by her beloved JC into the kingdom of bla bla bla. He's just worried about himself (poor baby).
There's a man with weak problem-solving skills, Lulymay.
Talking with a medical professional here yesterday
We both knew a couple of the demonstrators charged with attempted murder.
He said that he considered a line south of a latitude about thru High River red neck country.
No not me
I hear banjoes. Its more inbred like deliverance.
(in Alberta here, despite the liturgy, alcohol consumption in the congregation is large and daily)
side note
The four were aligned with white supremist group despite ones mother being Filipino.
Not very clear thinking there either.
What's remarkable about these "protesters", lungta, is that they really don't think -- either because they can't or won't.
It troubles me that the USA has so much influence on Canadas domestic affairs.
They are beginning to treat Canada as they did central America.
TB
Exactly, TB. American hubris knows no bounds.
Yes Owen I really don't know what to think.
My doctor , most of his co-workers ,
my dentist and most dentists
and a very large portion business ownership
of several southern Alberta communities
believe in magic underwear,
magically appearing and disappearing gold tablets
multiple wives , multiple heavens
and like every religious community
they are "the way the light and the truth"
and better than the the other 20 religious sects living here
who feel the same way of course
with similar superstitions and delusions
Human mental capacity is highly over rated
When religion gets involved in something like this, lungta, human mental capacity disappears.
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