More weirdness…or at least
potential weirdness.
OPP commissioner told a Commons committee last spring that the intelligence unit had identified the protest as a 'threat to national security'
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OTTAWA — MPs unanimously voted to demand answers from the Ontario Provincial Police on its “
wildly different” testimony about the security threat posed by the Freedom Convoy protests.
POIB leader Supt. Pat Morris told the commission his team never received “
credible” information that the Freedom Convoy posed a direct threat to national security.
Other intelligence partners, such as the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the RCMP’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams, never shared any either.
On the day Carrique told the committee that the OPP had determined the Freedom Convoy across Canada became a “
threat to national security,” a POIB report noted for the first time that the protests had the “
potential” to become such a threat.
But Morris told the commission the Freedom Convoy would have
only become a real threat to national security if a
series of
hypothetical events occurred
across Canada. They never did. Oh well….
An email from Morris to his staff on Feb. 7 tabled at the commission also reveals that CSIS and INSET did not share POIB’s view that the protests had even hit the threshold of “
potential” national security threat at that point.
Then, because it’s 2015-ish…I think we all remember that occasion, almost a decade ago now, upon which Justin Trudeau was asked in front of television cameras what country’s government he admired most. His memorable answer was none other than the People’s Republic of China. Let’s
go to the tape for the thousandth time!
Why drag this gibberish out of mothballs in 2022? Well, there are all kinds of possible reasons. Some people might find it significant that an admirer of “China’s basic dictatorship” later invoked the Emergencies Act as prime minister and suspended parliamentary government in Canada on a pretext that now seems flimsy if not ludicrous.
Trudeau’s time as prime minister has certainly put Canadians in a position to admire a dictatorial government that can do anything at all other than write cheques
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