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If you think that’s revisionist, try this one from less than 90 days before the Emergencies Act was enacted & the Liberal/NDP Non-Coalition Coalition’s Coalition was also exposed to the light of day:

Nov 21, 2021- Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has said he does not plan to be part of any deal with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to form a coalition government with the Liberals.

Singh told reporters recently there’s no discussion of a coalition, saying it’s, “a firm no for me.”
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While there are other ways for the Liberals and NDP to co-operate, history shows it’s a no-win proposition for any opposition party to form a coalition, formal or informal, to prop up a minority government.

The opposition party ends up wearing the government’s bad decisions while the governing party takes credit for any of its successes.
The reason is obvious. Voters don’t like opportunists. This year (2021), Canadians once again chose not to trust Trudeau with a majority government — for good reason. If Singh now gives Trudeau the easy ride voters denied him, the NDP will be punished in the next election (in 2025 if Singh continues to prop up the NDP/Liberals for as long as possible regardless of what transpires).

Trudeau’s government was plagued with scandals, from the SNC Lavalin debacle to the WE boondoggle. Time and again, Trudeau showed questionable judgment on everything from his shameful appearances in blackface to his fancy dress tour of India. Many Canadians find him an embarrassment on the world stage.
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Feb 23rd, 2022 (Two days after the NDP/Liberals rescinded the Emergencies Act:

Jagmeet Singh must be the most embarrassed person in the country today. Less than 48 hours after the federal NDP leader compromised every principle he and his party had ever stood for, just so he could support the Liberals’ invocation of the Emergencies Act, Singh had to watch Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pull a complete 180 and announce he was ending the state of emergency (presumably so he didn’t have to watch the Senate do it for him).

Wait a minute, you say. Shouldn’t Trudeau be even more embarrassed? After all, Monday he was claiming there was still a nefarious plot to overthrow our democracy, but Wednesday he was insisting the bad bogeymen were all gone. Meh…& the next day Russia invaded the Ukraine.

Monday (Feb21,2022), Trudeau stood in the House of Commons and insisted his government needed — absolutely needed — to seize bank accounts, cancel mortgages, hold convoy leaders without bail, make arrests without warrants, ban otherwise lawful protests and exercise all sorts of police-state powers arbitrarily without oversight by Parliament or the courts. Singh (& Elizabeth May) supported this. Wednesday (Feb23,2022) Trudeau calls it off.

In announcing his climb-down on Wednesday afternoon, Trudeau said, “We are confident that existing laws and bylaws are NOW sufficient to keep people safe.” But somehow they weren’t sufficient as recently as Monday afternoon when he insisted the plot to end Canada was so real it could only be thwarted by bringing into force the most restrictive law on Canada’s books?

Less than four months later, the NDP/Liberals drop the vaccine mandate:

It’s amazing how “progressives,” who see themselves as the great guardians of freedom, tolerance and democratic values, can flush all that down the drain in the blink of an eye — and still claim to be defending citizens’ rights.
Come on Man . It takes six years to qualify for the golden handshake . We can’t be expected to live up to our ideals until we get the gold .
 

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Come on Man . It takes six years to qualify for the golden handshake . We can’t be expected to live up to our ideals until we get the gold .
Jagmeet Singh was elected in February of 2019 then? Survey Says?!? Bing!

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Definition “Banana Republic”: Although the label has evolved over the years to mean any dictatorial regime, a banana republic was originally used to describe a Latin American country with an oppressive regime that operated at the behest of large agricultural companies; a country that suppressed human rights for business interests.
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If you think that’s revisionist, try this one from less than 90 days before the Emergencies Act was enacted & the Liberal/NDP Non-Coalition Coalition’s Coalition was also exposed to the light of day:

Nov 21, 2021- Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has said he does not plan to be part of any deal with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to form a coalition government with the Liberals.

Singh told reporters recently there’s no discussion of a coalition, saying it’s, “a firm no for me.”
View attachment 16573
While there are other ways for the Liberals and NDP to co-operate, history shows it’s a no-win proposition for any opposition party to form a coalition, formal or informal, to prop up a minority government.

The opposition party ends up wearing the government’s bad decisions while the governing party takes credit for any of its successes.
The reason is obvious. Voters don’t like opportunists. This year (2021), Canadians once again chose not to trust Trudeau with a majority government — for good reason. If Singh now gives Trudeau the easy ride voters denied him, the NDP will be punished in the next election (in 2025 if Singh continues to prop up the NDP/Liberals for as long as possible regardless of what transpires).

Trudeau’s government was plagued with scandals, from the SNC Lavalin debacle to the WE boondoggle. Time and again, Trudeau showed questionable judgment on everything from his shameful appearances in blackface to his fancy dress tour of India. Many Canadians find him an embarrassment on the world stage.
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Feb 23rd, 2022 (Two days after the NDP/Liberals rescinded the Emergencies Act:

Jagmeet Singh must be the most embarrassed person in the country today. Less than 48 hours after the federal NDP leader compromised every principle he and his party had ever stood for, just so he could support the Liberals’ invocation of the Emergencies Act, Singh had to watch Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pull a complete 180 and announce he was ending the state of emergency (presumably so he didn’t have to watch the Senate do it for him).

Wait a minute, you say. Shouldn’t Trudeau be even more embarrassed? After all, Monday he was claiming there was still a nefarious plot to overthrow our democracy, but Wednesday he was insisting the bad bogeymen were all gone. Meh…& the next day Russia invaded the Ukraine.

Monday (Feb21,2022), Trudeau stood in the House of Commons and insisted his government needed — absolutely needed — to seize bank accounts, cancel mortgages, hold convoy leaders without bail, make arrests without warrants, ban otherwise lawful protests and exercise all sorts of police-state powers arbitrarily without oversight by Parliament or the courts. Singh (& Elizabeth May) supported this. Wednesday (Feb23,2022) Trudeau calls it off.

In announcing his climb-down on Wednesday afternoon, Trudeau said, “We are confident that existing laws and bylaws are NOW sufficient to keep people safe.” But somehow they weren’t sufficient as recently as Monday afternoon when he insisted the plot to end Canada was so real it could only be thwarted by bringing into force the most restrictive law on Canada’s books?

Less than four months later, the NDP/Liberals drop the vaccine mandate:

It’s amazing how “progressives,” who see themselves as the great guardians of freedom, tolerance and democratic values, can flush all that down the drain in the blink of an eye — and still claim to be defending citizens’ rights.
They lie! There are those who simply refuse to admit it but it's pretty obvious.
 

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They lie! There are those who simply refuse to admit it but it's pretty obvious.
We’re living in the Google Inter-Webs era. We all carry in our pockets a computer that far exceeds the capabilities of what NASA used for the moon landing in 1969. Anyone can factcheck anything at anytime.

Saskatchewan is 2.5 times the land area of Texas!”(???). Digs out phone & 20 seconds later….”Uhm…Nope”……& it’s that easy to disprove bullshit. No bus ride on your next day off to the library and recalling how to use the dewey decimal system….just dig out your Goggle device and voilà! There’s the correct answer!

Politicians rely on the general public having memories like goldfish (which a quick Google search, tells me that goldfish have a longer memory than most of us think).
 

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It’s amazing how “progressives,” who see themselves as the great guardians of freedom, tolerance and democratic values, can flush all that down the drain in the blink of an eye — and still claim to be defending citizens’ rights.
And predictable.

Our biggest mistake was to allow society to recognize how bad it is to be a totalitarian NAZI state and how bad they were, but to basically ignore how bad a totalitarian COMMUNIST or socialist state is. So they can be as left as they like and nobody thinks it's terribly inherently evil, but if you're anywhere right of castro you're an evil nazi.
 

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The Liberals clearly used the agenda of the inquiry to their advantage. With cluttered proceedings, it was easy to cloud how thin to non-existent the government’s case was. Intelligence and law enforcement officials have repeatedly said there was no genuine security threat and that there was little to no use of serious violence or threats of such violence.

Trudeau’s testimony, which came at the very end, is arguably the only time the government has been able to explain how it came to the conclusion that using the Emergencies Act was legal and necessary. That doesn’t mean Trudeau succeeded, it’s just until this point, the arguments from Liberals might charitably be called gibberish.
 

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Here’s a bit of a different twist (not that different for Freeland I guess):

One bank chief executive relayed the comments of an investor to Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, who had said, “I won’t invest another red cent in your banana republic in Canada.” The day after this conversation, the Liberal government chose to invoke the Emergencies Act, with Freeland saying the comment was “heart-stopping” for her, and made her realize how much the protests were affecting the Canadian economy.
 

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Here’s a bit of a different twist (not that different for Freeland I guess):

One bank chief executive relayed the comments of an investor to Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, who had said, “I won’t invest another red cent in your banana republic in Canada.” The day after this conversation, the Liberal government chose to invoke the Emergencies Act, with Freeland saying the comment was “heart-stopping” for her, and made her realize how much the protests were affecting the Canadian economy.
Yes why would any entity invest in a country that can seize bank accounts and assets on the whim of the sitting government ?
 

Ron in Regina

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The Rouleau inquiry — an after-the-fact review required by law — will not determine fault or liability for what happened last winter when the “Freedom Convoy” protests exploded as Canada struggled through a fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic dominated by the Omicron variant.

But it will determine whether Trudeau was right, in law, to do what he did. That matters not just for Trudeau’s political legacy, but also for whether and how the law gets used the next time — if there is a next time.

This week, Trudeau finally commented on the protest movements in China that are pushing back against the Chinese Communist Party’s continued COVID lockdowns. “Everyone in China should be allowed to express themselves, should be allowed to share their perspectives and indeed protest,” Trudeau stated. “We’re going to continue to ensure that China knows we’ll stand up for human rights, we’ll stand with people who are expressing themselves.”

It’s an odd statement coming from the same guy who testified last week before the Public Order Emergency Commission and attempted to justify his own government’s crackdown on protests in Ottawa. Trudeau made clear that he still believes he was right to invoke the Emergencies Act to stop Canadians from protesting against his COVID-19 policies, but now claims to be supportive when Chinese protesters object to their government’s policies.
 

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The Rouleau inquiry — an after-the-fact review required by law — will not determine fault or liability for what happened last winter when the “Freedom Convoy” protests exploded as Canada struggled through a fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic dominated by the Omicron variant.

But it will determine whether Trudeau was right, in law, to do what he did. That matters not just for Trudeau’s political legacy, but also for whether and how the law gets used the next time — if there is a next time.

This week, Trudeau finally commented on the protest movements in China that are pushing back against the Chinese Communist Party’s continued COVID lockdowns. “Everyone in China should be allowed to express themselves, should be allowed to share their perspectives and indeed protest,” Trudeau stated. “We’re going to continue to ensure that China knows we’ll stand up for human rights, we’ll stand with people who are expressing themselves.”

It’s an odd statement coming from the same guy who testified last week before the Public Order Emergency Commission and attempted to justify his own government’s crackdown on protests in Ottawa. Trudeau made clear that he still believes he was right to invoke the Emergencies Act to stop Canadians from protesting against his COVID-19 policies, but now claims to be supportive when Chinese protesters object to their government’s policies.
It is a learning experience we all must move on from . Yikes , I have his lies down pat .
 

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It is a learning experience we all must move on from . Yikes , I have his lies down pat .
Oh, if Trudeau continues in power, there will be a "next time" since he used it so "successfully" before. He now knows how to handle things (thanks to his covid mandates) & there is nothing we can do about it unless we get rid of him. He's such a narcissist that nothing fazes him & he'll continue to follow the WEF to whatever hell we're going to be in down the line.
 

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Oh, if Trudeau continues in power, there will be a "next time" since he used it so "successfully" before. He now knows how to handle things (thanks to his covid mandates) & there is nothing we can do about it unless we get rid of him. He's such a narcissist that nothing fazes him & he'll continue to follow the WEF to whatever hell we're going to be in down the line.
Next up will be climate change lockdowns
 

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They want to make it an annual event.