Trucker Blockade Caused Lasting Psychological Damage to Canadians
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you have hit the nail on the head, and it started over 30 years ago when the schools started teaching kids that they had rights. I asked my kids teachers if they were also teaching the kids that there are responsibilities that go along with those rights and was informed no, they aren't. They are teaching the kids they have rights.
“They used a sledge hammer to kill a fruit fly”: Why the CCLA is taking the Feds to court over the Emergencies Act — Toronto Life
Noa Mendelsohn Aviv says invoking the Emergencies Act was an example of massive government overreach
“THEY USED A SLEDGE HAMMER TO KILL A FRUIT FLY”: WHY THE CCLA IS TAKING THE FEDS TO COURT OVER THE EMERGENCIES ACT
Noa Mendelsohn Aviv says invoking the Emergencies Act was an example of massive government overreach
BY COURTNEY SHEA | DATE FEB 28, 2022
…..there is some comfort in the fact that the orders are no longer in effect, but that doesn’t change what happened or our decision to take legal action. We are going ahead with the lawsuit because it is important that our courts have the opportunity to review and consider what actually happened.
What’s next is we will be in court. I’m not sure when, just because there are so many different moving parts. A win would be the court ruling that this was not just an error, but that the government didn’t have the lawful authority to declare an emergency or to pass the orders that were passed.
Don’t you get tired of being proven wrong on this (?) or are you really a Conservative Shill trying to get people to post things to prove you wrong (?) to show how inept Trudeau & his ilk really are?
Nope. Thet thar, good buddy, is an honest-to-Jesus Twue Bewiever. Take a picture to show the kids.
Plenty of 'em on the "other" side too.
And don't be so mean to True Dope's ilk. He's a nice ungulate, quiet and unassuming. Ain't his fault who his owner is.
Anyway, back to the psychological damage…Two brief observations as the dust settles on our nine days under the Emergencies Act: The first is that, in opposing government overreach, the Conservatives, who spent much of the past two years adopting Liberal policies as their own, seem to have finally found their voice. The second is that in trying to justify that same overreach, many Liberals have apparently lost their minds.
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At least I know what this HH stuff from a week ago is now. Two brief observations as the dust settles on our nine days under the Emergencies Act: The first is that, in opposing government overreach, the Conservatives, who spent much of the past two years adopting Liberal policies as their own, seem to have finally found their voice. The second is that in trying to justify that same overreach, many Liberals have apparently lost their minds.
Among the Liberal mind-losers was York Centre MP Ya’ara Saks. “How much vitriol do we have to see of ‘honk honk,’” she asked during the debate on the Emergencies Act, “which is a new acronym of ‘Heil Hitler’?” In her attempt to link the truck drivers — who did do a lot of honking — to Nazis, she produced a social media post showing that some nefarious people in dark corners of the Internet might designate two words beginning with “H,” or the number “88”, since “H” is the eighth letter of the alphabet, to mean “Heil Hitler.” Perhaps, but the question then arises as to whether retired hockey star Eric Lindros, who wore “88” over the course of his career, must now be denounced for supporting genocide.
Saks wasn’t the only Liberal drawing spurious connections between the truck drivers and Nazis. Days earlier, in response to comments by MP Melissa Lantsman, a descendent of Holocaust survivors, Justin Trudeau accused Conservatives of standing at the protest with people with swastikas. Of course, if it were true that everybody at the trucker protests, or who used the phrase “honk honk,” or who has some connection to the number “88” was planning or supporting genocide, then there would have been some basis for invoking the Emergencies Act.
Anyway, the story at the LINK above is pretty good!!
Commenting on the possibility that somebody could have his or her assets frozen on account of donating $20 to the protest through an online crowdsourcing platform, the assistant deputy minister of finance remarked, not very reassuringly, that “it would appear to be unlikely that this occurred, but not impossible.” In all, the government ended up freezing more than 206 bank accounts. Aaron Wudrick noted in National Review that, by comparison, the United States froze just 50 bank accounts in the three weeks following 9/11.
Etc….(link above)….
Matthew Lau: Conservatives find voice, Liberals lose minds — Financial Post
The truck drivers were not Nazis and the Emergencies Act was a disproportionate response
At least I know what this HH stuff from a week ago is now. Two brief observations as the dust settles on our nine days under the Emergencies Act: The first is that, in opposing government overreach, the Conservatives, who spent much of the past two years adopting Liberal policies as their own, seem to have finally found their voice. The second is that in trying to justify that same overreach, many Liberals have apparently lost their minds.
Among the Liberal mind-losers was York Centre MP Ya’ara Saks. “How much vitriol do we have to see of ‘honk honk,’” she asked during the debate on the Emergencies Act, “which is a new acronym of ‘Heil Hitler’?” In her attempt to link the truck drivers — who did do a lot of honking — to Nazis, she produced a social media post showing that some nefarious people in dark corners of the Internet might designate two words beginning with “H,” or the number “88”, since “H” is the eighth letter of the alphabet, to mean “Heil Hitler.” Perhaps, but the question then arises as to whether retired hockey star Eric Lindros, who wore “88” over the course of his career, must now be denounced for supporting genocide.
Saks wasn’t the only Liberal drawing spurious connections between the truck drivers and Nazis. Days earlier, in response to comments by MP Melissa Lantsman, a descendent of Holocaust survivors, Justin Trudeau accused Conservatives of standing at the protest with people with swastikas. Of course, if it were true that everybody at the trucker protests, or who used the phrase “honk honk,” or who has some connection to the number “88” was planning or supporting genocide, then there would have been some basis for invoking the Emergencies Act.
Anyway, the story at the LINK above is pretty good!!
Commenting on the possibility that somebody could have his or her assets frozen on account of donating $20 to the protest through an online crowdsourcing platform, the assistant deputy minister of finance remarked, not very reassuringly, that “it would appear to be unlikely that this occurred, but not impossible.” In all, the government ended up freezing more than 206 bank accounts. Aaron Wudrick noted in National Review that, by comparison, the United States froze just 50 bank accounts in the three weeks following 9/11.
Etc….(link above)….
Works for me, cuz upsetting the good burghers of Ottawa is exactly the same as hostile foreigners killing 3000 people and causing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of damage.
In the news this morning, some former Liberal MP is demanding the government ban government sponsored news outlets like Fox news (no lie) from broadcasting in Canada. I wonder if he includes CBC in that demand?
With the way this place operates, I'm surprised it's not some former Conservative.
Oh? "This place" has that much sway over politicians and the news?